topic Need strategy for serving up dynamic data as a service in ArcGIS REST APIs and Services Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/need-strategy-for-serving-up-dynamic-data-as-a/m-p/311203#M1521 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I hope this is the appropriate forum for this-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Our organization is trying to convert an old, kludgy stream gage web app to a GIS web app using the javascript API. We're currently running ArcGIS Server version 10 but should upgrade to 10.1 at some point. We're not talking about a lot of data- only 8-12 stream gages. The data itself is stored in an Access database and we'd like the map service to have a refresh interval of 5 or 10 minutes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The map service won't be a GIS dataset per se because I plan to construct a featureLayer on the fly like a JSON feed due to some custom symbology requirements. As such, I'll be publishing a particular table from that Access database which contains the last three days worth of values from each gage since my web map popups will create some hydrographs.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>From experience, map services based on file based sources (shapefiles, etc) lock up the files which will prevent the update process outside of the GIS realm. </SPAN><STRONG>SO-</STRONG><SPAN> how do I publish my data for consumption by a web map that doesn't prohibit any processes outside of GIS from completing an update??</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:37:45 GMT SteveCole 2012-11-28T16:37:45Z Need strategy for serving up dynamic data as a service https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/need-strategy-for-serving-up-dynamic-data-as-a/m-p/311203#M1521 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I hope this is the appropriate forum for this-</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Our organization is trying to convert an old, kludgy stream gage web app to a GIS web app using the javascript API. We're currently running ArcGIS Server version 10 but should upgrade to 10.1 at some point. We're not talking about a lot of data- only 8-12 stream gages. The data itself is stored in an Access database and we'd like the map service to have a refresh interval of 5 or 10 minutes.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>The map service won't be a GIS dataset per se because I plan to construct a featureLayer on the fly like a JSON feed due to some custom symbology requirements. As such, I'll be publishing a particular table from that Access database which contains the last three days worth of values from each gage since my web map popups will create some hydrographs.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>From experience, map services based on file based sources (shapefiles, etc) lock up the files which will prevent the update process outside of the GIS realm. </SPAN><STRONG>SO-</STRONG><SPAN> how do I publish my data for consumption by a web map that doesn't prohibit any processes outside of GIS from completing an update??</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:37:45 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/need-strategy-for-serving-up-dynamic-data-as-a/m-p/311203#M1521 SteveCole 2012-11-28T16:37:45Z Re: Need strategy for serving up dynamic data as a service https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/need-strategy-for-serving-up-dynamic-data-as-a/m-p/311204#M1522 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>you can use workgroup or enterprise gdb.</SPAN><BR /><SPAN>Info: in 10.1 ags doesn't support the Access Database</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 29 Nov 2012 17:43:18 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/arcgis-rest-apis-and-services-questions/need-strategy-for-serving-up-dynamic-data-as-a/m-p/311204#M1522 nicogis 2012-11-29T17:43:18Z