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Description

GIS Virtual Globe applications allow the user to navigate around a 3D representation of the earth, and supports creation and display of features on its 3D model. Normal use-case scenario of this brick occurs at the desktop by end-users. Typical uses include cartography and visualization.

Tactical

(0-2 years)

  • ESRI ArcGIS Explorer*
  • Google Earth*
  • Microsoft Bing Maps for Enterprise (web only)*
  • NASA World Wind

Strategic

(2-5 years)

  • ESRI ArcGIS Explorer*
  • Google Earth*
  • Microsoft Bing Maps for Enterprise (web only)*
  • NASA World Wind

Retirement

(To be eliminated)

  • None

Containment

(No new development

  • None

Baseline

(Today)

  • ESRI ArcGIS Explorer*
  • Google Earth*
  • Microsoft Bing Maps for Enterprise (web only)*
  • NASA World Wind

Emerging

(To track)

  • Global Positioning System (GPS)
  • Location Based Service (LBS)
  • Social Networking

Comments

  • GIS Products were selected based on NIH requirements and a market study of the GIS domain, as well as the NLM Market Survey [Requires NIH Login]
  • NIH/ Office of Research Services (ORS) currently has enterprise site license for ESRI ArcGIS
  • Other products may be considered if they adhere to these standards and provide other capabilities or cost benefits.
  • For tactical deployment product must:
    • Support Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Standards
    • Support Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Standards
    • Support integration and interoperability with existing and planned infrastructure
    • Support custom cartography
    • Support basic spatial analysis
    • Maintain, when usage includes heavy editing, topological integrity
    • Connect, when usage includes large storage, with spatial RDBMS
    • Support, when usage includes remote sensing, raster
    • Support, at a minimum, data export to one of the following:
      • Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Keyhole Markup Language (KML)
      • ESRI Shapefile
      • CAD (Computer Aided Design)
    • Support section 508 compliance
    • Support at a minimum at least one NIH Standard Web Browser per OS environment
  • Tactical and Strategic products were selected to leverage NIH's investment in products that are a proven fit for NIH's known future needs. Leveraging baseline products in the future will minimize the operations, maintenance, support and training costs of new products.
  • Some baseline products have been designated Retirement and Containment.  These products are either not as widely or successfully deployed at NIH, or they do not provide as much functionality, value, or Total Cost of Ownership as the selected Tactical and Strategic products.
  • *Note Google, Microsoft, ESRI etc frequently update their geo-data licensing (which they may themselves lease from other providers like Tele Atlas, NAVTEQ etc).

Time Table

This architecture definition approved on: February 23, 2010

The next review is scheduled in: TBD