How Much Does AI Cost for a WebGIS Project to Add, Edit and View your data?

I recently embarked on a journey to develop a WebGIS project and decided to leverage AI tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot.

Here’s how it went:
I spent at least one or two hours explaining to ChatGPT what I wanted to develop. It provided some initial examples, but there were challenges — sometimes responses lacked maps, sometimes they included Python instead of JavaScript. I entered a deep loop of Q&A, refining the responses iteratively. Finally, ChatGPT gave me a correct environment to start my development: a pure JavaScript front-end with asynchronous calls to an endpoint, using PostGIS on the backend.

Following ChatGPT’s suggestions, I created a new file structure and began filling it with code using GitHub Copilot. This AI also took some time to grasp my simple logic but demonstrated excellent knowledge of JavaScript, MapBox, and Bootstrap.

So, “How much did AIs cost me?” At least 2 hours of my time, but my mission was accomplished!

The result is now public, allowing you to try and explore the code behind it directly on the GitHub repository.

Finally, how much would it cost you to develop a web map application with functions to Add, Edit, and Visualize your Data? I don’t have an exact figure, but you might want to ask Esri…

Public map: https://cityplanner.biz/geo-dashboard/view-edit-add-poi/?id=medium

GitHub repo: https://github.com/piergiorgio-roveda/geodashboard-demo/tree/main/trunk/theme/project/view-edit-add-poi