On Monday we are presenting to the Executive Officers of the University. Our bosses have been banned from the meeting, by their boss. so it will be just us. Two developers trying to enlighten those who make the decisions as to the wonders and potential of web based mapping. We have reworked our powerpoint to be less technical and more of a broad view of what this can do.

The potential of a tool like this is really limitless. Any spacial data that currently exists, and there is a lot of it, can be integrated into the map as an interactive layer. The part that takes the longest is gathering the data about each feature, but thanks to a back end interface making updates to map features can be done quickly and easily by non technical staff, by the people who really have a stake in the data.

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The example we’ve used most commonly is that of Disability Services. Currently they have an access map that shows all of the features on campus that are pertinent to the accessibility of the campus. We want the folks who work in that office to have a way to edit attribute data for different features as it comes available to them. Say an elevator breaks in the Liberal Arts building. Instead of them handing it off to the IT staff and wait a couple of days for it to get posted, by which time the elevator may have already been fixed, they should be able to log in and quickly and easily update the info important to them and the students they are there to support.

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