Research: Services in AGOL

[nathankota]

Caveat: dependencies on existing ArcGIS server GP services

Can services and data be moved to AGOL? Might not be able to handle the database and relationship classes. What other options might be available for getting it out of ArcGIS Server?

[stdavis]

The main concern that I have for this is the geoprocessing tasks. I did just recently get rid of one of the 4. GetSegmentFromStartDistDirt & GetSegmentFromCoords are the two that would be the hardest to replicate on the client...

[steveoh]

could they be done in postgis?

[stdavis]

I don't know. One example:
Take two input points and return the closest stream segment to them, or a straight line if there isn't a stream within a certain distance.
Take a start point within a certain distance of a stream and trace up or down stream a specified distance.

These sound more than just DB queries to me but I'm not a PostGIS expert.

[steveoh]

The first could use ST_DWithin() to get the closest stream segment, and ST_MakeLine() >when there isn't a match on the distance. Use COALSECE() to get the closest segment first and only create the line when no match.

The second sounds like an easily enough problem for PostGIS and pgrouting