Thanks to excellent notes left by Rob Shepard and Nicholas Gliserman, our previous CDRH GIS experts, I had a pretty good starting foundation for the next steps. The next problem was that most of the files can’t be picked up straight out of the ESRI server and put into something else.
So okay, no big deal, right? Just take the old map files and put them in some new technology? The problem was, we no longer have a GIS specialist in the CDRH. With this in mind, it was time to recreate maps with a new technology.
Furthermore, many of the maps were only viewable in Flash, a technology whose days are numbered. We have many projects that rely heavily on maps, from Cuban Battlefields to Civil War Washington, all previously living their lives on an 8 year old server whose ESRI license ($$$) is set to expire at the end of the summer. We have had a looming problem on our hands for a while at the center: what we should do about our aging map projects living on a dying server.
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