UBC Simple Web Mapping with Editing Capability (Jerry Maedel)

We are a mixed AutoCAD and ESRI shop at UBC. We have much of our landbase data entered in AutoCAD and much of our planning done with ESRI. Our campus data resides on an internal ArcServer web application and we have many worldwide research datasets in ESRI format.

Researchers have a very limited amount of time to spend completing their work and most do not have a GIS background. With the advent of Google more researchers and instructors are being drawn to the relatively simple and fast dissemination of location based data using Google KML files.

The push now is to make these Google based web applications more useful by allowing online data entry and editing. More like the commercial GIS web applications without the complexity and resultant long learning curve. Is this possible? In the spring of this year I set out with the able help of LaudonTech to see if we could build a simple location based web app that had online data entry and editing capability.