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Administering ArcGIS for Server

By : Hussein Nasser
Book Image

Administering ArcGIS for Server

By: Hussein Nasser

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Administering ArcGIS for Server
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Planning GIS services


From what you have read in the case study, you may have realized that the solution cannot be implemented directly. There is some infrastructure that needs to be built. There is no database and there are no explicit networking requirements, so we have some freedom when it comes to planning. Therefore, we can start analyzing the requirements and come up with an optimal solution, which is the sole purpose of the planning stage. You are instructed to specifically use a server, which means that the Belize government might have already done its research and selected the server as its underlining infrastructure for this and future implementations.

Analyzing requirements

Let's start with the main goal of this study. Our solution needs to visualize the restaurants in the country, so I'm thinking there must be a map—a basemap—that contains basic geographic land cover of the country. There is no mention of such data in the case study. This map requires the restaurants' data source...