Some exciting things have been taking place over the past few weeks…
The OpenLayers Mobile code sprint in Lausanne appears to have been a huge success. The new Mobile Demos speak to the great progress that was made over a single week.
While I was in Florida on vacation last week, I received an email from the NYS GIS listserv that the (ancient) New York State Digital Orthoimagery Application was (finally) being replaced with a (functioning) application called New York State Orthos Online. I was happy to see that the state didn’t fall for the old ESRI flex viewer template, but actually came up with a nice application built on the ArcGIS JavaScript API. We can finally browse and download imagery without having to open Internet Explorer!
I decided to take the fruits of all this labor and build a new mobile web application that may or may not be useful to others out there. The result is the NYS Orthos Online Mobile application (NYSOOM). NYSOOM is basically a touch-optimized mobile version of the NYS Orthos Online site. I took the ArcGIS REST services hosted by the state and plugged them into the OpenLayers jQuery Mobile example that was a product of the code sprint in Lausanne. So if you are curious about the Empire State, break out your smartphone and peruse through the entire imagery collection (1994-Present). The current URL of the application is http://geoserving.net/nysoom, but if there is any interest I may move it to another domain.
Let me know what you think!
PS- You can check out the application on your desktop using Google’s Chrome browser.
Noli
I hope we can get Spatialite, if not PostGIS queries to overlay this overlayers JQ + vector snap edits – perfect for mobile GIS.
Noli
Bernie Connors
Bryan – Great site linking ArcGIS map services with jQuery mobile. I am not a programmer but I am a GIS professional. I would like to experiment with your code and try to display some of our ArcGIS map services (geonb.snb.ca/ArcGIS/rest/services) with the OpenLayers jQuery Mobile example. I have looked at the source of your HTML but I don’t see where you make reference to the NYS ArcGIS map services. Can you give me some pointers?
Thanks,
Bernie.
Bryan
Thanks Bernie! Have a look at the following JavaScript file: http://geoserving.net/nysoom/mobile-base.js. This file contains the OpenLayers configuration, including the layer definitions. This file is referenced in the index.html head section. Good luck and keep me posted on your progress!
BRYAN
Kiran Shakya
Dear Bryan,
Thanks Bryan for a nice page. In past, I was working with ArcGIS server websites with C# and Web ADF. Now I am planning something for the mobile web application (probably with JavaScript API and JMobileQuery).
Is there any tutorial or any web sites for mobile web page starters.
thank you
Kiran
Mark
Bryan,
Nice site. I am trying to figure out how to use the mobile-jq example with my own data using GeoServer. I cant seem to get it to work right because geonames.org (which your example uses) uses a different JSON format than geoserver.
If anyone has figured out how to configure the app with their own data let me know.
Thanks