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Ways to use GIS (1)
• Driving an image map…
• Combining different sources of data in
order to produce maps for your web
site.
• These maps are used as the basis of
‘image maps’
– Images on the web site that users click on
in order to select an area of interest
– Much simpler than building a GIS on the
Web, if this is the only functionality you
want to provide.
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See ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/
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Ways to use GIS
• Selecting data in response to
user queries…
• You may want to allow searches of
your database using addresses,
locations, etc., but return information
without showing the user a map.
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See www.filmunlimited.co.uk/
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Ways to use GIS
• Producing maps in response to
user queries
• Perhaps the best–known of the web–
based GIS applications, and now
widely available.
• Services often offered by companies
who are prepared to integrate their
products with your web site, so that
you don’t need all of the expertise in–
house.
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See uk.multimap.com/
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