With the rapid development of Internet technology and the growing demand for space information represented by the community, the geographical information industry has ushered in a period of rapid development. According to the latest statistics of China Geographical Information Industry Association, the total output value of China's geographic information industry has exceeded 200 billion yuan in 2012, and the growth rate is over 30%. By the end of "Twelve-Five", this figure is expected to exceed 400 billion yuan. The rapid development of industry, the need for a large number of high-quality professionals continue to join. As a training base for talents in the industry, colleges and universities have been exploring new teaching ideas in order to meet the needs of the industrial development.
According to the Ministry of Education issued the "2012 College Entrance Examination Enrollment Professional directory" data show that there are nearly 160 universities in the country has opened a GIS major, and the establishment of relevant professional teaching units are nearly thousands. Moreover, GIS in colleges and universities is no longer an unpopular professional, it is more and more connected to different professions, and become an important means of integrating and sharing resources in various colleges. The spatial thinking advocated by GIS has become an indispensable ability of contemporary university graduates.
In recent years, the rapid development of cloud GIS, mobile GIS and other new technologies has injected new vitality into the industry, and has brought more possibilities for the application of GIS. Beijing Union University keenly captures the development trend of this industry, after multi-research, decided to build a cloud platform based on GIS technology, to provide a platform for learning and communication to the whole faculty and students, and to popularize the knowledge of geographic information science, and to show scientific research. Beijing Union University has learned that the school has successfully built a cloud platform based on GIS technology and completed internal testing. At present, the platform has been formally put into use, began to serve the school's teaching, research and other work, the future of its external service functions will be continuously improved and strengthened. As the first university cloud GIS platform in China, its success is put into use or it will bring new work ideas for talent training and subject research of geographic information and related majors in China, and promote the steady development of China's space information industry.
The Cloud GIS portal at Beijing Union University is a private cloud platform built on the world's largest GIS technology and service provider, ESRI's portal for ArcGIS products. Compared with traditional GIS software, this cloud portal is simpler to operate and more convenient to publish and share content.
The campuses of Beijing Union University are geographically dispersed, and the resources of the schools are relatively scattered. At the same time, most of the college's teaching and research work has GIS requirements. For example, the history department teacher needs to use the GIS to draw the archaeological work site map, the special education college needs to use the GIS to make the Beijing special educational Resources distribution map, the tourist school needs to use the GIS to carry on the visitor behavior simulation research and so on. But these colleges and students are not GIS professional background, too complex GIS desktop software is not particularly familiar. And the portal for ArcGIS Cloud Portal is a good solution to this problem, users do not need to have professional GIS knowledge, just simple operation, can realize the spatial data management and mapping, the publication and sharing of results. Furthermore, the flexible rights management of the portal for ArcGIS Cloud Portal enables individual users to organize, manage, and empower their own business data to enable tracking and control of data without worrying about data security issues.
In addition to better serve the whole school's scientific research work, the General Assembly portal for ArcGIS Cloud GIS portal for the GIS professional teachers and students of the teaching work also has a great role in promoting. In the past, students submitted their homework is a medium copy or on-line transmission of the way, very inconvenient, the teacher after the feedback is also facing the same problem. With the cloud portal, all of this work can be done in the cloud. Moreover, in the future we will encourage teachers and students to put more research process, and not only the results of the study published to the cloud, so that students learn from each other and reference will be greatly helpful.
At present, the school is based on this cloud GIS platform to build an admissions advisory portal, with a view to using GIS technology to better candidates, parents and colleges and universities consulting services. The admissions platform is expected to be released as soon as April 2013.
Zhongke Yan Garden GIS outsourcing team (Mobile: 13261043797,qq:1216807928) Project Case--university cloud Intelligent Platform Development GIS Project undertaking