Ciao a tutti,
dopo aver pubblicato un post sul lavoro della città di Greeley in Colorado, ho inaspettatamente ricevuto una mail dal GIS Manager che si è occupato di realizzare il webgis vincitore del Primo Premio della Conferenza Internazionale ESRI 2009.
Stiamo parlando di Brian Sullivan.
Brian si è dimostrato molto gentile e si è reso disponibile a rispondere ad alcune domande sulla loro bellissima cartografia web.

Questo post quindi, è una breve intervista a Brian.

Vi invito a fare altre domande in coda al post nel caso abbiate dubbi o vogliate approfondire l'argomento, con la sola accortezza di scrivere in inglese.
Vedrete che se Brian o i componenti del suo team leggeranno le vostre domande risponderanno molto volentieri
A proposito di inglese, vi invito anche ad evitare qualsiasi commento sul mio inglese della serie "the book is on the table", "the cat is under the table".

LE MIE DOMANDE A BRIAN

Hi Brian,

thank you for your mail.
It’s a pleasure for me and for my blog receive news from Greeley.
I’m sorry for my English....
It would be interesting to write post like an interview with you about your geoweb application.
I have some questions about this.

1)How many people have work for the geoweb application?

2)Did you develop Flex interface by yourself or did you use something ready?

3)How many time have you work for this project? (hours, days or months)

4)when did you decide to join Esri international User competition? and when did you discover you won the first prize?

5)What is the greatest problem you encountered in this project?

It’s possible to have a photo of the team to publish it in my blog?
Thank you for your answers!

Congratulations for your work

Sincerely
Paolo

LE RISPOSTE DI BRIAN

Hi Paolo,

Hope all is well where you are. Here are my answers to your questions;

1. I have a staff of 5 GIS professionals, but for the ORIGIN project we had a team of 6: 3 GIS and 3 System Admin folks – see photo attached.

2. We did create the ORIGIN Property Information Map site from scratch, all based on a specific business need. When we put this together it was before ESRI’s released their Flex template.

3. We figured out that it took about 250 man hours for this application. Not all of this was working out the user interface; much of this time was spent working out issues with ArcGIS Server and the base cartography. Our next following 3 applications took significantly less time. The Cemetery application took about 2 weeks to build and deploy. http://gis.greeleygov.com/origin/linngrove/

4. We decided to attend the 2009 ESRI’s Users Conference when we were notified that we had won the SAG award. We didn’t find out about the First Prize for Best Interactive Map until after the conference, since this award was given by folks voting for our site at the conference. So I didn’t get that notification until the end of August.

5. The biggest problem was really managing expectations. We did our best to stick with the business need we were trying to meet and not fall into the trap of trying to make a mapping application that would do everything for everyone. As soon as people saw the app, there were lots of requests for us add all sorts of data and functions in that were not in the original scope. Which I guess is a good thing and shows that people really like it.



Attached is a photo of our ORIGIN team.





Thanks again for the interest and please let me know if you have any other questions or if you need any other clarification. Also, if you blog this, please send me the link when you do.

Cheers,

Brian


Voglio ringraziare ancora Brian per l'attenzione che ha riservato al blog e per la sua gentilezza e competenza

Ciao a tutti,
a voi lettori la parola!

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