Learning Claris FileMaker

Louisiana Coastal Services (LCS) is a multidisciplinary law firm, land broker, mapping, and project management company that assists in making Louisiana coastal projects a success.

They have extended expertise in many domains, deep local knowledge, and a modern technology toolkit unlike any other firm. Their services include Regulatory Compliance, GIS Mapping, Grant Management, Litigation, and even Risk Management.

ArcGIS Online (AGOL) and FileMaker make up the bulk of LCS’s tech stack.

AGOL is powerful mapping platform that allows you to host data in the cloud and produce maps than can be embedded into websites.

LCS figured out how to display these maps within FileMaker webviewers but quickly realized that wasn’t quite enough.

For example, users wanted to be able to click on tracts and open the corresponding FileMaker record.

They wanted to be able to change the status of a tract project in FileMaker and have the map update the tract feature’s color to reflect this change.

These types of interaction between the web and FileMaker are not trivial.

LuminFire was able to provide them with exactly what they required when other developers failed.

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The City of Omaha Planning Department Housing and Community Development (HCD) Division uses a FileMaker app as a key technology tool for managing city housing and community development projects.

The app is extensive.

It was built in-house over many years and is highly customized to departmental needs.

It tracks project applications, funding, contacts, vouchers, programs and more.

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This entry is part 2 of 2 in the series GIS and FileMaker

You’ve read our Mapping and More post.

You know what Geographic Information Systems are.

You’re starting to understand why you need GIS in FileMaker… now let’s get to the how.

In this post we’re going to cover the basics of creating maps in your FileMaker solutions from built-in, no code required options to interactive Leaflet maps that require just a bit of HTML, CSS, & JS.

If you’re new to web programming and these acronyms make your cringe, don’t fear, we’re providing a demo file with all (**the minimal amount**) of the code you need to get started.

The demo file is actually set up as a sandbox where you can effortlessly experiment with creating maps and other webviewer technologies in FileMaker… more in bit.

For now, let’s dive in assuming you have a database that stores mailing address information in some way, shape, or form and want an interactive map.

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