I don't have computer programming skills, and I want to develop an interactive online interface for presenting my hydrogeological vulnerability research output, where the site users can input hydrogeological and soil parameters from thier lands/borewells and get processed information based on my research.
Is this possible with the Arc GIS (Arc web) etc? Suggest appropriate tools, and please highlight the level of programming proficiency required.
I would recommend collaborating with another researcher in your institution with this expertise...You will learn from him/her while you also get your project up and running quickly. If your results are worth putting on the web for others you should be able to develop a strong funding proposal.
My opinion is regarding ArcGis many online video tutorials are available there you can learn. Good luck,
If you don't have any colleage whith these skills you can use some online service where you can upload your raw data and publish them. A very simple way is Google Fusion Tables [https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2527132?hl=en] From excel or csv tables, it is very easy to represent data points or heat maps.
Another awsome serivice is CartoDB [http://cartodb.com/] Here you also can make database queries to your data and represent them in different formats
I hope this help you
Jose excellent suggestion. However web based GIS are not so difficult. we have developed one for HABs identification have a look at http://www.esrs.wmich.edu/webmap/kuwait/
Great job Saif, what tools you use? I use Geoserver and PostGIS as backend, OpenLayers as soft client and QGIS as desktop client, and some python scripts to make some geoproces in my work. The final result is very powerfull with this elements
Jose we have used Google Maps, Python scripts, and ArcGIS Server, which hosts all the services. This combination allows the leveraging of pre-existing ArcGIS services while also providing the ability to incorporate more advanced tools. The overall design of the web-based GIS system can be divided into three distinct parts: data storage, GIS web server and rendering tiers, and the front-end interface viewed by a user.
The interface a user would encounter when visiting the website consists of HTML and Javascript components used to send requests to the server via Asynchronous Javascript and XML (AJAX), and to display images created by the GIS web server at the correct location on Google Maps as per the query. The map canvas used in this project is the Google Maps API, which allows the website user to employ the high-quality GeoEye 2 images provided by Google in conjunction with sensor data, thus providing a more complete view of the area than was previously possible.
Saif and Jose,
You are the colleagues I was recommending that Haris work with...Clearly there is a learning curve that can best be assended by teaming up.....Always best for the plumber to do the plumbing and the electrition to do the wiring.....
CartoDB is a good option for non web mapping experts. Mapbox is also available but requires undestanding of css.
A good solution is QGIS WebClient. But you need a web server of course.
https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Web-Client
You might try to use Google Fusion to publish simple map data on your website or blog
The Harvard site, Worldmap (Worldmap.harvard.edu) allows anyone to upload and share GIS data. It also includes a map warper feature that allows one to upload and rectify any kind of mapping data. Developed with wikipedia-like feature people who upload data can share it if they chose with others, making some 78,000 data layers available for others. One can also add images, video and text to one's mapping projects.
OpenLayers is a good tool to publish your data as it let you access to many packages and pre-compilated functions and examples from which you can just pick the code and use it (it is free and open source). The main issues are that you need an active server for publishing your layers as WMS/WFS ( a good option is GeoServer) and if you need a data processing service (WPS) you shuld have some programming skills to coupling it with OpenLayers code. In alternatives existing software and application,aforementioned by our colleagues in the previous answers may be more suitable in your case!
http://geoserver.org
http://openlayers.org
These sites maybe useful too.
QGIS: http://www.qgis.org/en/site/
GEODA:http://geodacenter.asu.edu/
hi Haris you can use open source software - GeoServer for your interface
http://geoserver.org/
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