"Some customers have heavy investments in enterprise GIS software platforms as well as other platforms that utilize geospatial data. They use these platforms to manage data, triage events, create reports, among many other activities that drive their decision-making processes. Due to large investments in time and resources, many customers are less likely to invest in additional platform capabilities like the current offering of the Aerial Data Portal. However, these customers still need an optimized way to access data to drive their internal processes. At scale, accessing and managing geospatial data is a proven challenge for our customers."
User Goal
Users want fast, easy access to large quantities and a wide variety of geospatial data
Business Goal
We want to create a product offering that allows users to acquire, manage, and extract geospatial data, forgoing any tools and functionality related to their assets.
How might we provide users with a fast and easy way to access geospatial data?
ADP is currently our only product offering for managing geospatial data. Because of this it is deeply intertwined with functionality that we've designed around customer assets. Much of the current experience was designed around a use case where users create workspaces, triage, inspect, and create reports with this data. Simply separating it out may result in a fractured user experience and building an additional or new product to address this could lead to significant overlap across the two offerings.
If we create a data (layer) catalog/browser users will be able to quickly and easily access geospatial data. We hope that this will allow us to create a new product offering that stands alone but can also integrate seamlessly in the ADP.
Computers help us manage a variety of file types. The different apps that we use are the tools that allow us to expose information that live within these different files. My proposed solution is analogous to this in that the Data Browser is simply the means which the user views and manages their data, while the ADP could just be the tool that helps them expose the information that lives within the different file types. Separating the data from the tool could help us achieve two distinct product offerings that work seamlessly together and are incredibly scalable.
Level of Effort
High
Possible Dependencies