Manager's Corner (easier) nemec designed this carousel navigator widget. Users can spin to a different map without having to leave the current map. Westerville Flex viewer displaying the Drive Time Ring widget that wasn't available in the samples. "Fortunately, working with the samples familiarized me with the code enough to experiment with it and customize it," said Nemec. "It wasn't long before I started using Python and other scripting languages to automate tasks on the server." information. Westerville needed to deliver more than zoning boundaries on the map. It needed to return data, such as hyperlinks, parcel IDs, and owner information, in response to queries of the county auditor Web sites. Using ArcGIS Server, Nemec can hyperlink to actual ordinance codes over the Web. "Builders, contractors, and landowners can now easily access the current zoning ordinance for a property," said Nemec. "They no longer have to come into the planning and development office for possible zoning change requests." Start to Finish Westerville's ArcGIS Server site took Nemec about six weeks to get running and online. After that, the time required for tweaks and improvements shortened significantly as he became familiar with the code and was able to recycle some of A sample application that nemec used to demonstrate the capabilities of ArcGIS Server his existing code. "The great thing about ArcGIS Server is that I didn't have to be a programmer to create my Crucial Need for Querying Before moving to ArcGIS Server, Westerville had wanted to give its Web sites." For Nemec, "The ArcGIS Server and code communities expanded user base not only fast mapping but also the ability to per- were an invaluable repository of knowledge, walking me through what form advanced queries. Although Nemec could plot points in ArcIMS, could have easily been an overwhelming experience." Nemec quickly discovered that Esri support services and user comhe could not dynamically create statements that would review data for a specific number of days and return results. "We needed that for our munities make the ArcIMS-to-ArcGIS Server transition simpler than police site," Nemec said. "Temporal data is crucial for law enforcement he thought possible. Now Westerville not only meets user performance to create statistics and serve them to the public." With ArcGIS Server, expectations but can serve the demands of a larger user base thanks to Westerville citizens can now get specific crime reports through its Flex- ArcGIS Server's cached map services, optimized map services, and lightweight APIs. For more information, contact Brian Nemec at brian. based police site. ArcIMS was limited to performing only simple queries on parcel nemec@westerville.org. www.esri.com ArcUser Fall 2010 39