Lab 8: Web Geoprocessing Services
Introduction: This lab gave students experience in developing a very basic geoprocessing service. Instead of requiring scripting using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript and the use of HTML and CSS as past labs have, this lab leveraged the simplicity of authoring a geoprocessing application with the Web AppBuilder for ArcGIS Developer Edition. A geoprocessing service was created using the Model Builder within ArcMap and other ArcMap functions which was then used by the geoprocessing widget employed in the Web AppBuilder application. The goal was to create an application which could find areas suitable for a factory. This factory requires water and therefore needs to be close to a river, needs rail transport for bulky final products so it needs to be close to railroads, and needs to be close to a city of more than 4000 people for the workforce to withdraw to. The CEO also would like to have the latitude to enter different population requirement parameters into the application. Metho...