Interactive GIS systems/prototypes for the Internet



 Academic projects and prototypes

ForNet BWCAW Internet MapServer

The MapServer is a CGI based program that allows users to create custom graphics using ESRI shapefiles on-the-fly. The user can specify the layers of interest, zoom in/out, pan and identify the displayed features using standard HTML image map interface. The interface is more or less standard and should be visible by every Internet browser. The core of the CGI application is a shp2gif converter, that allows to push back to the user the requested layers as GIF files.
There is also a Java extension to CGI based interface. It basically allows the same functionalities, but the user interface is implemented as a java applet shapefile client.


ForNet MinnGIS

MinnGIS, an interactive JAVA applet GIS data browser for Minnesota, which contains multiple data layers for the state. It uses data pulled from the EPIC archives CD and converted to Imagine images or Arc/Info shapefiles. Users can create custom graphics for the state or individual counties. The user can browse the selected map using some controls that allow to zoom in/out, pan and change the RGB band values.


ForNet CSAView interface

CSAView is a gateway to a ARC/INFO GIS system, that allows users to query and browse geo-spatial data interactively, that is, the user can select the layers to display, identify some features and zoom in/out, pan the visualized maps. The application is based on a C language CGI-script that does all the display and processing. GNU Ghostscript is used to convert ARC-generated postscript files into GIF ones. Once graphics and HTML documents are generated, the C code returns them to the client.


Canadian National Atlas Information Service NAISMap

NAISMap allows the user to view and manipulate National Atlas spatial data layers and construct maps of Canada. NAISMap uses a body of code called N-map running as CGI program that interacts with a GIS system(CarteSIAN). N-map is a medium-size piece of C code. A prototype was originally designed in the spring of 1994, and acted as a catalyst for the NAIS-on-the-Net project, which resulted in the NAIS home page. N-map uses a vector database of coordinates which it renders into a GIF raster image.


GrassLinks 3.0

GrassLinks is a World Wide Web interface to a GRASS GIS system that provides display and analysis tool on a large set of environmental data. It allows the user to interactivly choose the dataset to browse and provides the following choices for interactive maps:


TIGER Map Service

The Tiger Map Server is a geographic map service which produces public domain GIF images of map data which is derived from Tiger/Line data. The primary goal of the service is to provide a public resource for generating high-quality, detailed maps of coverage within the United States and outlying areas, using a public geographic data source. The code for the mapping engine "tigerwww" is written in C and the front-end tools "mapgen" and "mapbrowse" were written with Perl 4.036. The output images are created using a modified version of the GD 1.1.1 GIF-drawing library.


Dynamic Geographic Information System (DGIS)

This is a dynamic GIS system written in Smalltalk. It is based on the GeoViewer, a object oriented GIS, as the spatial data server for DOOGIS(Dynamic Object Oriented Geographic Information System) that allows to dynamically couple to models, simulations, and/or applications producing behaviors and data. The GeoViewer is both a framework to be included in modeling infrastructures and a standalone product. It allows the user to performe some basic capabilities needed to provide typical GIS functionality such as zooming, panning, and getting information about the spatial datasets stored on the server. There is a full featured Java applet based interface or a CGI based one with limited set of functionality.


BigBook

BigBook is a yellow pages and map locator service that allows the user to select a precise search area based on a digital map. When the user clicks on the map button on the search page, he will see a map that reflects any geographical information he specified, such as city, state, Zip Code, etc. The HTML CGI based interface allows the user to zoom in/out and pan the displayed map. All the dataset used by the BigBook information system coming from Etak, Inc.


Zip2 Yellow Pages

This application is a yellow pages like service that allows the user to display the major U.S. metropolitan area street maps and find out over 16 million business listings in the U.S. The user selects his starting place and the system return to him the right directions to reach the destination. The system provides a standard HTML CGI based interface or a SUN Java applet that allows the user to zoom in/out, pan and query the map. In addition is possible to send a fax or an e-mail containg the map created to a specified recipient.


Yellow Pages of California Businesses (Pacific Bell)

The Pacific Bell yellow pages allows the user to easily find businesses throughout California by using a text search or a geographic clickable map. The HTML CGI interface provides controls to zoom in/out, pan the map and extract consumer information by clicking on it.


MapBlast! Interactive Maps

MapBlast is a interactive mapping service that allows to the user to create custom maps about United States. The system allows the user to zoom, pan and query the displayed maps. The results can be also sent by e-mail to a recipient or saved as HTML to be included in custom user Web pages. The user interface is implemented by HTML CGI scripting. The system uses the free mapping service from Vicinity Corporation.


ImageNet Interactive World Map demostrations

ImageNet is a modular UNIX-based software system for interfacing databases with the World Wide Web. It has specific functionality geared toward the querying of geospatial data, but also has some general-purpose functionality applicable to any database schema. The system is built on industry-standard technologies, including HTML 2.0 and TCP/IP communications, and its modularity enables it to support databases from a wide array of vendors. The ImageNet query architecture is fully distributed; databases queried from a single point of entry may reside next door or anywhere in the world. The interaction between the user and the system is handled by the User Server. This is a cgi-bin program that is referenced by a direct URL with no initial parameters, and handles all interaction with the user by generating appropriate HTML pages for logging in, querying, and returning results.


Virtual Maps - Dynamic Street Maps of Selected U.S. Cities

This application provides detail, dynamic street maps of main U.S. cities. The maps based user interface supports searching of streets or landmarks, zooming, panning, temporary pushpins as markers, and WWW hyperlinks. The user interface to the system is implemented both in standard HTML CGI and as a Sun JAVA applet.


City.Net (Excite/GeoSystems/Magellan Geographic)

The goal on the City.Net is to provide more links to travel and local information on the web about U.S. It is currently showcasing more than 3000 destinations, offering a comprehensive guide to entertainment, arts, area attractions, sports, events, weather, and much more. The user interface controls allow the web user to pan, zoom, and print interactive maps created on the fly about U.S. Cities and the World. The system is able to display political maps and even satellite images as well.


Live Access to Climate Data (NOAA PMEL/TMAP)

The Thermal Modeling and Analysis Project (TMAP) at NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory was formed in 1985 to advance our understanding of the processes that control the evolution of sea surface temperature and upper ocean thermal structure. This WWW server, funded by the NOAA/ESDIM Program, stems from work directed toward these goals. It uses the group's analysis tool, FERRET , to provide access to gridded environmental data sets in TMAP's library. It enables the user to interact with a remote UNIX server, and create a variety of visualizations of these climatologies on the fly. Software written in the C programming language processes the user's choices, and when a selection is made, calls FERRET to plot or transmit the data. Plots are sent by the Web server to the user in a graphics file and presented for viewing. To speed access, when a particular view is plotted, its file is cached, and quickly retrieved the next time that view is selected. A JAVA applet interface is available too.


NOAA Realtime TAO Buoy Data Display

The application allow to display realtime data received daily via satellite from the TAO buoy array in the Tropical Pacific Ocean about sea surface temperature and wind. The user interface is implemented using a set of HTML CGI forms and images. A C-shell script generates standard output consisting of html commands including links to the gifs to be displayed. This script generates the maps using a set of EPIC Web Utilities to create and display the maps.
There is also a set of Java interfaces to TAO data and graphics that allow for a more convenient selection of the required parameters by the user.


Great Lakes Map Server (CIESIN)

This map server allows the user to interactively compose a map with select EPA site datasets and feature coverages for any local U.S. area within the Great Lakes region. The HTML CGI based interface allows the user to select upper-left corner and the lower-right corner of the region within the Great Lakes where he would like to create a map. The results are presented to the user as a map of the region selected and a map legend describing the displayed layers.


Ecotourism Interactive GIS

This application enables the user generate maps of the area highlighting vegetation of australian forests. The HTML CGI based user interface controls allow the web user to select the layers to display, zoom in/out, pan and changed the quality of displayed maps.


MapQuest - Java-Based Atlas, TripQuest, TravelPlan USA

MapQuest interactive mapping, routing, and trip planning service that allows the user to plan trip around the States, find driving directions and depict maps of businness, houses etc.


A Map, Route and Yellow Pages Service

Map On Us is a yellow pages, weather, routing and mapping service that can be accessed using a set of interactive maps. The user can find the fastest route to follow, a place or a business of interest, or get the latest weather information for a specific area of the US. The user interface is based on HTML forms and image maps.


Yahoo! Maps

Yahoo! Yellow Pages and Maps allows the user to navigate and locate an address in the United States. The maps are realized using HTML image maps. Some map controls are available to the user to zoom in/out, pan and resize the displayed maps


Animation of San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) System

Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) operates in the San Francisco bay area. Its schedules are widely
disseminated; hundreds of thousands of people ride every day. This Java applet shows a simulation of on-schedule Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system operation in the San Francisco Bay Area.


Interactive Subway Maps and Route Guide (Los Angeles, Paris, Lyon)

This Applet computes subway routes for different cities around the world. It loads a small database for each town and can load also a map. Given the database, the applet presents a user-friendly interface to the subway network, displaying stations name into small pop-up windows, and roviding an alphabetical list of all stations. The applet really computes the route from one departure station to an arrival station and graphicaly displays the found route.


Interactive Australian Map Composition Using Java (ERIN)

The Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN) has established and is continuing to
develop a series of online information services that allow ready access to key information about the
Australian environment through easy-to-use interfaces. This site provides a set of demo JAVA applets that allow the user to display, zoom in/out and pan interactively on maps of Australia.


West Coast of Australia Interactive Map

These pages implement an interactive internet Map (iiMap) which incorporates the Shires of: Chittering, Dalwallinu, Dandaragan, Gingin, Moora, and Victoria Plains in the state of Western Australia, Australia.


European Statistical Map (IVEE) - Internet Spotfire

The IVEE Spotfire JAVA applet displays a data set consisting of about 100 points representing countries in Europe. Each country has a set of attributes, such as population, life expectancy etc, which the user may search by dragging the sliders on the right.


Regionlink Tour of Brussels (Brussels UrbIS)

The Regionlink Brussels site offers information, products and services for Brussels, Europe's capital city. The JAVA applet implements a navigable map of Brussels, that may be used to find places of interest and hotels.


Regio Data Geographic Information System

Regio Data is an on-line Geographic Information System implemented as an applet. The application allows the user to select the database to use, the area of interest (the geo-extension), the layers to display. In addition, a set of controls to pan, zoom and query the map are provided.


Java maps of Berlin,Germany


Galway, Ireland Interactive Map

The applet implements an interactive street map, that may be used to find and identify pubs and restaurants. When the user click on an item (restaurant or pub) the name of the business is being highlighted on the map. 5 zoom levels are defined for the map.


Thematic Maps of Tyrol, Austria

This is a very simple Java program to show different layers of thematic maps in a java enabled Web browser. The maps showed are relative to the Tyrol area - Austria.


Interactive Map for Cologne, Germany (BkmMapViewer)

(Short description to be provided)


Interactive Map of Central Sapporo (Japan site)

(Short description to be provided)


Interactive Map of Slovakia

(Short description to be provided)


Maps of Slovenia and Ljubljana

(Short description to be provided)


Cartography Applet: World Map

This JAVA applet displays the earth in various map projections and from various positions. The user can re-center the map, change the projection and disable the grid-lines.


World Sunclock for Java

This JAVA applet displays the earth with the current solar terminator projected onto it.


Cool Java Map Page (World Map)

This applet displays vector wolrd maps inside the browser window using a JAVA applet. The Digital Chart of the World (DCW) is used for the mapping data. The server actually supports a Vector Product Format database.


Alternative Route Finding on the Puerto Rico Road Network

This applet demostrates some algorithms for finding the "best" route/path over a network. The map refers to the Puerto Rico Road Network.


Interactive Route Finding for Minneapolis, Minnesota

WebRoute allows commuters to select their source and destination and computes a route based on that information. Commuters will then provide comments about the quality of the computed route to help evaluate the underlying road-map. The system currently features an interactive routing environment where the user enters a source and destination and a shortest travel distance path is computed. Only major roads in Minneapolis are considered (one-in-three roads) and not all road names are accurate (entered by hand).


Virtual Boston and NewYork

This is a JAVA applet that may be used to find places of interest on maps of Boston (Brookline, Cambridge, Somerville) and NewYork city (Manhattan, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens). By entering a serch string a set of hints are displayed and the user can select one of them to view the specific area on the map. Maps can be panned and zoomed by clicking on them.


Interactive Subway Maps for New York City and Manhattan

These Java applets allow the user to find the shortest route from one station to another in the subway. The user have to click on a station to begin search. When the button is being clicked on another station, the program will find the most direct route. By default, the program computes the route at 8 a.m. on a weekday. To select a different time, the user must use the "Route Options" button. Subway schedules are particularly different on weekends, and especially after midnight. The "Route Options" button also lets to choose how often the applet will transfer you between subway lines. The "Select Lines" button lets to choose which subway lines the applet will use for your trip.


Blue-Skies For Java Weather Maps (Univ. of Michigan)

Blue-Skies Interactive Weather Maps contains a weather image (e.g. radar map with fronts, satellite image, etc.) in which all textual information on current conditions and forecasts is embedded. There are cities plotted throughout the map, and as the computer mouse passes over the cities, the current conditions (temperature, wind direction and speed, etc.) are shown on a status bar. If the user clicks on the city, the latest National Weather Service forecast for that city is displayed. The user also has the capability to zoom in on selected regions of the country, allowing more cities to be displayed and allowing greater exploration of weather phenomena.


The Weather Visualizer (Project Horizon/Univ. of Illinois)

With this applet every user has the opportunity to customize the displayed weather maps and images. By simply pointing and clicking, select which features the user wants to see on the customized weather map. Embedded helper sections provide useful details and information to provide the user with the background necessary to correctly interpret these images.


Weather Animator - Satellite Weather Images (Project Horizon/Univ. of Illinois)

(Short description to be provided)


USA Weather - Regional Forecasts (Intellicast)

IcastMap is an applet which allows the user to quickly access Intellicast regional and national products, as well as view the current conditions for selected regions across the country. The applet consists of three panes. The topmost pane contains animated text describing how to use the applet. The middle pane contains a national basemap, with active regions highlighted. The bottom pane is used to display current conditions.


Animation of 1988 Monthly Mean Global Temperature (VDADC/CEOSR)

This applet shows images of monthly mean global temperature in 1988. It illustrates time series cariability of this parameter. The user can use the buttons to control which image to display. Pressing the "Start" button the temporal animation will be started. The speed field shows the time
interval between two images, and the month text field shows the month corresponding to the current
images. The user can change the speed of animation only when the animation is paused or before the animation starts. The user may also change the image in display by entering the month in month text field.


The Dry Middle East

The Middle East has always been a dry place. The purpose of these Web pages is to explore what new, mostly remotely sensed data can tell us about the age-old dryness of this important region. The JAVA applet presented here allow the user to view selected images created from a set of pre-assembled the data sets.


Interactive Java-based Selection of Global Geophysical Data (VDADC/CEOSR)

(Short description to be provided)


Interactive Marine Buoy Observations (U.S. National Weather Service)

By clicking on a highlighted region the user can get the weather and sea state data being reported by automated marine stations. A non-JAVA version is here.


Display of Realtime TAO Buoy Data from the Tropical Pacific (NOAA)

The following java applet reads and plots the realtime TAO meteorological data files by MetRltDisplay. This applet demonstrates the ability to interactively display data located on a remote server at PMEL. The applet uses the G2Dint class from the Java Graph Class Library to plot the data. This allows the user some interactive control over the plot and the ability to retrieve data points. Others TAO realtime graphics are here.


Java Enhanced Interface to EPIC Oceanographic Profiles (NOAA)

The EPIC Data Selection applet provides an interface to on-line databases on this server. As a
matter of fact, all this applet does is launching an existing CGI script by a simple HTTP/GET
command. The script then searches our databases and starts the EPIC Web Browser.
For a non-Java, HTML forms based interface to oceanographic profiles on this server go here.


Hurricane & Storm Tracking Atlantic & Pacific Oceans

The StormTrack system watches various weather information servers for new tropical depressions, storms, or hurricanes in the Atlantic or the Pacific. When a new storm is announced (named by the National Hurricane Center), StormTrack creates an entry for it and begins automatically tracking the storm.


Hourly Rain Data from NOAA's Forecast Systems Laboratory

This JAVA applet displays daily and hourly precipitation totals from approximately 3000 stations
throughout the continental United States. Data are provided to the Forecast Systems Laboratory by the National Centers for Environmental Prediction.


Interactive Great Lakes Water Level Plots

The user can explore Great Lakes water levels going all the way back to 1860. Just clicking on one of the 5 locations in the map below and the user will get a graph of water levels and some water level statistics for the location you selected. Alternatively, instead of clicking on the map the user can select a location from the list. Either way, once the graph is displayed, is possible to zoom in on the time period. As soon as the user change the time period of the graph, water level statistics for the time period currently shown in the graph are automatically calculated and displayed directly below it.


Technichron: Dynamic Picture of the World Receiving Sunshine

(Short description to be provided)


Map Slide Show of Great Britian and London (KINDS)

The Knowledge-based Interfaces for National Data Sets Project aims to increase the awareness accessibility and usability of spatial data sets held at MIDAS. To help the user to  use these spatial data,  this Web service enables to easily search, browse and work with spatial data sets on line using a JAVA applet as interface to the system.


Interactive Map of Tallinn, Estonia

(Short description to be provided)


SaVi: Visualization and Analysis of Satellite Constellations

SaVi is software created at the Geometry Center at the University of Minnesota for the visualization and analysis of satellite constellations.


Java Spatial Data Viewer (SDV) for Displaying ESRI Shapefiles

(Short description to be provided)


Oregon Child Welfare Thematic Maps

(Short description to be provided)


Geodetic II: World Distance Calculator

(Short description to be provided)


IRIS: a Knowledge-Based System for Visual Data Exploration

IRIS is a prototype system supporting visual analysis of spatially referenced data. IRIS automatically produces high-quality thematic maps for statistical data selected by the user. The system applies generic knowledge about how to best combine and present statistical data in thematic maps, encoded as heuristic rules, together with application-specific metadata about the statistical data, encoded using an object-oriented knowledge representation language. Unlike other Geographical Information Systems, IRIS fully automates the production of thematic maps displaying statistical information. It thus allows the user to focus on data analysis rather than on cartographic presentation. The user interface of IRIS is implemented as a Java applet.


British Columbia, Canada Provincial 1996 Election Results by Riding

(Short description to be provided)


The U.S. Electoral College Calculator

The U.S. electoral system forces candidates to carefully allocate their time and money among the states.Each candidate must devise a campaigning strategy which gives him or her the best chance to win at least 270 electoral votes. This page contains a Java applet which allows the user to experiment with different campaign strategies or to track the probable election outcome based on the user's  estimate of state-by-state election outcomes. To use the Electoral College calculator, the user have to select states by picking the state name on the list box, or clicking near the center of the state on the map. After a state is selected, by pressing the radio button corresponding to the winning party, the calculator will display running totals and votes needed to win.


Northern California GIS Data (Berkeley Digital Library Project)

This collection of Geographic Information System data includes digital ortho photographs, digital
line graphs, GRASS produced area maps, and shaded relief maps. The data is accessed through the
GIS Viewer which is a Java applet that enables users to pan and zoom and select which data set to
view.


Ocean Drilling Program (ODP) Geographic Search Engine

(Short description to be provided)


Query Master Environmental Library (MEL) - U.S.Department of Defense Environmental Data

(Short description to be provided)


Virtual Georgetown (Washington, D.C.) Interactive Map

(Short description to be provided)


Interactive Map of Denmark

The map applet is designed to make an interactive map of Denmark showing amongst other things the infrastructure of Denmark. The map applet is a sort of clickable map currently with a few features to make use of layers and areas on the map. An area is made active when the user moves the mouse into the area, depending on what sort of area a highlight may be shown, a separate image could show up etc. A set of different layers, located in transparent images, can be used to let the user decide the level of information/details on the map.


Animated Shaded Maps of County Level Data for Kansas

This applet allows the user to generate animated shaded maps of county level data from the archive of the Kansas Statistical Abstract. Each map represents data for one variable. Shading can be animated across years.


TASC Web GIS Services

The Florida Department of Transportation maintains approximately 350 GB of roadway imagery
 that eventually will be able to be accessed online. At the current time, this demo only allows
 access to three roads in Leon County. To view one of these roadways, select Capital Circle (it
 runs around Tallahassee). You will be able to select any milepoint on this road and view a
 corresponding image of the roadway at this point. The application also incorporates "Previous",
 "Next" and "U-Turn" functionality.


VictoriaProfiler© using GeoInfoMapper©

The GeoInfoMapper© Java Applet enable the user to visualize demographic statistics for Victoria, B.C. The user can interact with the application by selecting one or more attribute and clicking Update. By choosing Reset a new map is created; Hide choice remove the choice dialog; to navigate the zoom buttons and the arrows must be selected. By pressing the Print Screen on the keyboard the image is copied to the clipboard.


Interactive Mapping at CAST

In cooperation with the National Aeronautical and Space Agency (NASA), CAST staff are involved in the development of tools which allow Internet users to create maps on-demand. The Arkansas Interactive Mapper is a Web-based mapmaking utility developed as a demonstration effort to increase the usability and access to spatial data by state and local agencies and the general public. The Mapping Washington County, Arkansas is an example implementation of GeoMedia Web Map that uses data for a selected region of Washington County, Arkansas.


DeLorme | CyberMaps

This page presents three different examples of applications. The CyberAtlas gives the user an on-line Street Atlas USA map of a city you select. The CyberRouter provides a AAA Map'n'Go route between two cities of US. Street Atlas USA Places allows the user to see a Street Atlas USA place.


LandData BC Catalog

LandData BC is a data access and delivery service provided by the Government of the Province of BC. The applet implements an on-line catalog to order data from the LandData BC store. The user can select an area of interest from a displayed map and get the right data from the server.


West Virginia Division of Environmental Protection

The WVDEP interactive mapping interface utilizes a CGI interface to Arc/Info to generate maps and query attribute data for the entire state. Arc Macro Language (AML) are generated and executed on-the-fly in response to user requests, and the output is returned to the user. The interface supports several important datasets, including Toxic Release Inventory, STORET water quality data, wetlands, and abandoned mine lands. The interface also supports multi resolution datasets, and we are also experimenting with statewide SPOT panchromatic and 30m digital elevation models.


Internet GIS World - Internet GeoStar

As a Internet GIS approach to multisource data and geoprocessing, this system has the main features as followings:


Interactive Map of Hamilton (EISL)

(Short description to be provided)


Info Map (Japan site)

(Short description to be provided)


MapInfo of University of British Columbia - Campus Map

The user can use this map to get detailed information about buildings and locations on the UBC
campus, search for locations by name, or navigate through UBC's many World Wide Web
servers geographically.


Homes Internet Magazine

(Short description to be provided)


Virtual UK VRML Repository

Virtual UK it's a virtual map of the United Kingdom innit guv (gorblimey strike a light)... It contains
links to 3D models that represent real sites within the UK and British Isles. Virtual UK itself is
based on accurate mapping information which includes terrain profiles, roads etc. and will eventually house every building in Britain. The first section to be modelled in this way is Silicon Alley, which depicts the Notting Hill Gate area of London.


Morgan County Tax Parcel Demo

This demonstration was prepared in a joint effort by the Morgan County Tax Assessors Office, the
Northeast Georgia Regional Development Center (RDC), and Exploration Resources, Inc. (ExR).
Its purpose is to demonstrate the capacity to integrate local and regional geographic information
system (GIS) data with ExR's Internet map viewing technology to make geographical information
available to a wide audience. The graphic images and database were prepared for demonstration
purposes only.


Wold Travel Guide

The World Travel Guide Online is brought to you by Columbus Group plc and The SABRE Group,
Inc. It is the most comprehensive and objective guide to the travellers' world, and has been
designed to answer all the questions you will ever need to ask with speed, confidence and
authority. Every country in the world is presented in a detailed and highly structured format for ease
of use.


Store: Maps & Globes @ nationalgeographic.com

(Short description to be provided)


AutoPilot Highway Trip Planning System

The easy-to-use AutoPilot Highway Trip Planning System produces comprehensive itineraries with many unique features, such as showing enroute facility locations. Submit your trip information and get a customized itinerary.


Lycos RoadMaps

(Short description to be provided)


Travelocity - Map It

Create a map for any location in the United States by entering the street address or the names of two intersecting streets (separated by an "&") and the city, state or zip code.


CDF Map Making Facility - Mapmaker

(Short description to be provided)


Interactive California Environmental Management, Assessment, and Planning System

ICE MAPS is an interactive, natural resources query system for the state of California.
This system uses several Web techniques that allow you to query the GIS system and databases
here at ICE. The results include maps and hyper-links to other sources of information related to
your choices.


Regional Transit Diagram

The Bay Area Transit Information Project provides instant online access to transit information for
the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area. The Project is supported in part by the Metropolitan
Transportation Commission (MTC) through a grant from the Bay Area Air Quality Management
District.


Virtual San Diego

(Short description to be provided)


EZ-Map!

The user has to type in a street address or intersection or zipcode or City, State. EZ-Map dynamically generates a map that may be customized with frames and images. The maps displayed here are provided by Etak.


A GMT3 Map Generator

This HTML form based interface takes longitude/latitude pairs as input and plops them on a Mercator projection map along with land/sea and political boundaries. The map bounds will be about 10% larger than the bounds of the entered data points. The default values on the form below yeild a nice map of Cape Cod, Massachusetts, generated by supplying the longitude and latitude values of Cape-area towns: Woods Hole, New Bedford, Nantucket, Chatham and Provincetown.


Visualize GFDL Data

(Short description to be provided)


Stadtware - City map of Berlin

(Short description to be provided)


GUILD: Manaaki Whenua-Landcare Research (New Zealand) Ltd

GUILD-on-the-Web is a web version of an X11 based user interface to a commercial GIS. GUILD is designed to be used by people who have had no previous experience of computer  based mapping tools or Geograpic Information Systems. GUILD is also designed to provide full explanations about the data that is available, and to control the level of access of different user communities. As an annonymous Web surfer we provide you with data browsing tools and predefined interpretations of our data in a simple to use framework. For registered users who have more knowledgable of the data we are developing tools that will give users more control over the detail of analyses and a facility to order paper cartographic maps showing the results of the analyses that will be sent by overnight courier within NZ. We will also continue to develop new data themes and predefined interpretations for general use.


Up-to-the-minute Southern California Earthquake Map

This map shows the last approximately 500 earthquakes detected by seismographs in southern
California. Earthquake locations are updated based on Caltech's real-time picker. These locations
are received over e-mail, usually within a few minutes of the earthquake's occurrence. Note that
since these locations have not been human-reviewed, they may contain errors.


Washington DC Area Multi-Scale Map

This demonstration utilizes Digital Orthophoto Quadrangle (DOQ) data supplied by the United
States Geological Survey (USGS). DOQ images are derived from aerial photographs that have
been digitized and then rectified to an orthographic projection, thus combining the visual properties
of a digital image with the geometric properties of a map. The original data set used here is a
mosaic of thirty-six 1 meter/pixel resolution DOQ quarterquad images depicting Washington, DC
and the surrounding suburbs.


SITEINFO GIS Application - EPA Region 10

SITEINFO is a general mapping and text reporting application that includes information on regulated sites, population, and environmental factors. SITEINFO was developed to be a simple to use GIS application that is usable by regional staff to create informative reports and map displays of EPA management concerns, regulated sources, human health, and ecosystem information for areas surrounding any given location in the region.


Pittsburgh Map and Restaurant Database

(Short description to be provided)


Altimetry Atlas - Mean Sea Surface and Gravity Anomaly Maps

The following mean sea surface and gravity anomaly maps of the oceans were computed from a
combined solution of satellite altimeter data gathered by a number of satellites: GEOSAT, ERS-1
and TOPEX/Poseidon. The data was merged into one dataset, orbit error was eliminated using
crossover minimisation. A paper giving more information on the applied procedure is listed in the
references below. The gravity anomaly map of the Indian Ocean was computed from a combined data set containing altimetric data from GEOSAT, ERS-1 and TOPEX-Poseidon. The Atlantic Ocean map is computed from ERS-1 and TOPEX-Poseidon data only. To go the contents pages of the maps click on one of the maps below. A series of perspective views of the Indian Ocean mean sea surface is also available, these were created using a ray-tracer (POV).


Plant Fossil Record

(Short description to be provided)


VDADC Access to Data

This example shows how to generate an image of the values of a geophysical parameter through the
Web page interface. The user may choose a geophysical variable, geographical area and time
specification. A Java version of the tool which allows you to select a geophysical area through pointing and draging on a map is available.


Global map of Mars

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PDS Mars Explorer for the Armchair Astronaut

The Mars Explorer allows you to get an image map of any area on Mars at a variety of zoom factors, image sizes, and map projections. These images are created using data from NASA's Viking missions. This web page designed by the Planetary Data System's Imaging Node to provide a global point and click system for exploring Mars. The idea for the web page was conceived on the day the announcement came for the possibility for life on Mars. The developers of the page were working on a related project called MapMaker. The web page uses PDS Viking images and MapMaker to make its maps.


Mars Multi-Scale Map

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SanGIS Interactive Map

The SanGIS Interactive Mapping page offers maps of San Diego County from regional to street level. Select from the many map"layers", pan and zoom the view around the county, or go directly to a specific city, zip code or address.


UK Maps

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FME - Forestry Design File to GIF/Shape/MapInfo/SAIF

The FME extracts data from an IGDS/MicroStation Design file that the BC Ministry of Forests has kindly made available.


GIC - Virginia County Interactive Mapping

The Virginia County Interactive Mapper makes customized maps of every Virginia county and independent city available on the World Wide Web. Users may customize maps by choosing features to be displayed, zooming in to a desired level of detail, and selecting appropriate formats to download data. Users may download maps in a common binary image file format (GIF) or as an ArcInfo interchange file, making the data available across platforms and accessible to users of MapInfo, Atlas GIS, and other popular GIS packages. Each map is generated "on the fly" after the user makes selections. The data source for The Virginia County Interactive Mapper is 1994-version TIGER data. The maps are generated by ArcInfo version 7.


GISApplet

The GISApplet is a simple GIS-Client which displays BNA and ATKIS files and is written entirely
in Java.


L+T DistrictManager im Internet

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GISeye

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JaGo - A Java Interface to GIS

The Vertigo database group of the CEDRIC lab at CNAM, Paris, in collaboration with the Verso
group of INRIA, Rocquencourt and the database group of Telecom, Paris, is interested in open
architectures for GIS. More specifically, we are currently looking at different distribution platforms
for geographical data and services. This user interface allows you to display and modify maps obtained by database queries or stored in files (URL queries). A thematic map is obtained by an overlay of several layers, each of them representing a different theme (highways, rivers, equipments).


GIS Data for Champaign County

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Java SDV

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Bushfire model

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ArcJ

EUROCOM has developed the first vectorial tool for viewing ESRI's SHAPE files from a
local host or a WWW Server.


Delta Fish Flow

Delta Fish Flow is a Java applet that displays the amount of fish sampled in the Sacramento/San
Joaquin River Delta over time. Information about the fish monitoring program and the sensor data used in this program can be found at the California Department of Fish and Game's Bay Delta monitoring site. The Delta Fish Flow program takes the monitoring data and displays the daily fish samples,representing each sample with either a picture of the fish or a colored circle whose size
corresponds to the number of fish sampled at a monitoring location. The 'Start' button will start the
animation. The 'From' and 'To' drop down lists will allow the user to view a limited number of days. And the user can select which fish types wishes to see by selecting from the list of fish.


PILOTGIS - GIS data distribution

The "pilotGIS"-project is a national co-operation project between some Swedish communities,
Provincial Government Boards (regional authority = county) and national agencies. The project
will revise data structures, terminologies to establish a "de facto" standard, and look at GIS-tools
to enable a more effective physical planning process. Lots of data are exchanged and evaluated
(e.g. the distribution and properties of land parcels protected by environmental legislation) within
this process, and the project have developed this Web-application for the distribution of such
(digital) map data. Current funtionality involves:

Map data comprise two counties in Western Sweden - Göteborg&Bohus and Älvsborg - with an area of approx. 20000 km2. The applications contain examples of large point air pollution sources and nature reserves with their attributes (information about the map object). A 1:250.000 map from the National Land Survey of Sweden has been used for orientation.


GeoMap - A Java Mapping System for GIS Data

GeoMap is a collection of Java classes designed to display latitude and longitude coordinate data
on an interactive canvas.


GeoTALK Intelligente, interaktive Karten im Internet (German site)

GeoTALK ist eine auf JAVA basierende Client/Server-Lösung mittels derer sich Landkarten, Stadtkarten und Gebäudepläne im Internet/Intranet visualisieren und für eine weitere Verarbeitung in unterschiedlichsten Anwendungssystemen zur Verfügung stellen lassen. Gegenüber herkömmlichen Systemen, die Rasterdaten (pixelbasierende Bitmaps) zur Verfügung stellen, ermöglicht das eigens entwickelte GeoTALK Protokoll eine völlig neue Dimension der interaktivität auf der "intelligenten Karte" im Internet/Intranet.



CyberMap Japan Corp. (Japan site)

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Commercial Solutions

Professional Geo Systems - LAVA/MAGMA

Lava/Magma, a 100% Java GIS solution, with geographic information servers for Internet on Windows 95, Windows NT and all major Unix platforms.
Compared with the other GIS products for Internet currently available or announced, Lava offers you the following advantages:

Autodesk - Mapping and GIS solutions

Autodesk offers a diverse and comprehensive line of products for professionals in a variety of GIS/mapping niches.
Autodesk MapGuide is the world's first complete vector-based mapping and GIS solution which allows you to author, publish, and distribute richly detailed maps over your intranet and the
Internet. Some of the important new features of the Autodesk MapGuide technology are summarized below:

AutoCAD Map® Release 2 is the latest version of Autodesk's automated mapping and GIS tool for creating and maintaining maps in the AutoCAD environment. Autodesk World™ transform classic GIS into an open, flexible system for accessing, integrating, and managing geographic data. WHIP!™ 3.0 plug-in allows the user to open, view and print drawings in the Drawing Web Format (DWF). The WHIP! 3.0 viewer is the fastest, most accurate way to view drawings. It's based on the same high performance graphics technology that powers AutoCAD® Release 14 and 3D Studio MAX®.