NR 621: Maps on the web

Jim Graham

Spring 2009

Portable Document Format

• Acrobat Writer lets you write PDF files from virtually any application by “printing” to a PDF

• Acrobat Pro will maintain links

Image Maps

• Create background image in ArcGIS– Create a map that looks good on the screen– Export or Screen Capture

• Define polygonal areas as “image maps” in DreamWeaver– Circles for points– Simple polygons for polygons– Polygons for polylines?

• Good for 10 to 20 areas

Larger Image Maps

• Fixed array of coordinates for known map

Image Maps

• Query Database

• Create absolute DIVs

Shapefile

• Server side-Static Maps

• Shapefile– Grab screen image or export to PNG– Generalize it– Generalize image map

• GeoRasters

• Need a Shapefile to HTML image map converter

Spatial Database

• Server-side dynamic maps

Web Server

• ArcIMS

• MapServer