Hi all-

This is my last Google Maps post for a while!  We just finished a demo application for the State of Kansas where a user can geocode a location and see that location on a Google Map client.  While that is not that unique, the details of the application are pretty cool.

http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/googlemaps/ks_gm.cfm

• Users can geocode by city (Lawrence), address (1930 Constant Avenue, Lawrence), zipcode (66047), or the intersection of streets (9th & Iowa, Lawrence).  We are using the Public Services category of ESRI's ArcWeb Services. 
  
• The black and white imagery is coming from ESRI's ArcSDE through ArcIMS.  We are using the ArcIMS cache on demand system that I mentioned here.  The reason for this is the lack of quality imagery data that Google provides for most of Kansas.
  
• The Map client is the Google Maps ajax client.
• The Road data is from Google Maps (Teleatlas).

Let us know if you have any questions.

Jeremy & Praveen

Hi all-

Praveen Ponnusamy, a savvy developer in our group, has cracked the Google Maps API so that single images can be used within Gmaps.  For places that store high-quality imagery in SDE or use Mr. Sid files, building 256 X 256 tiles on the fly is not very efficient.  It is much more efficient to just select one image over the entire vieawable window.   Praveen has worked through the Google javascript and has a working example of publishing Kansas orthophotography as a single image tile within the Google Maps framework.

http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/googlemaps/arcims_viewer.html

Praveen has also done a great write-up and supplied the code.  Read his write up to find out more...

Hello All-

Sorry it took me so long to post the code for using ArcIMS to build tiles for Google Maps. 

Enjoy.  It is written in Coldfusion, but it is applicable to other languages.

http://geoportal.kgs.ku.edu/googlemaps/GM_ARCIMS.zip


Jeremy