Web Mapping Using Different Types of Data Integration
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Sandinska, J.; 2Bandrova, T.
1LABORATORY ON CARTOGRAPHY Email: yoana.sandinska@gmail.com
2LABORATORY ON CARTOGRAPHY Email: tbandrova@abv.bg
Abstract
Nowadays the way of representing cartographic maps is far away of what has been before. Now people are more interested in new developed technologies and interactive functionalities of maps. This paper represents the most used world popular GIS cartographic software and shows the advantages and disadvantages of nine cartographic products which were having in mind during the elaboration of an interactive complex tourist map of Australia. To achieve this goal, the following two programmes are chosen: ArcMap (where the most of the settings within the most common GIS software are performed) and Mappetizer for ArcGIS (an extension for ArcGIS which gives users the opportunity for converting a data frame within ArcMap into SVG format and web publishing). The result of an export is a folder with several XML, SVG, Javascript and HTML files. The major goal of this project is connected to the web mapping of Australia using an appropriate projection for the needs of thematic mapping - Lambert conformal conic projection with two standart parallels. The intermediate purpose is achieved by collecting different types of data and their integration. The compiled map has three zoom levels of an attractive and effective digital visualization (using deep-zoom technology) in scale limits between: M1: 30 000 000 and M1: 20 000 000, M1: 20 000 000 and M1: 5 000 000, M1: 5 000 000 and M1: 1 000 000. It means that the amount of cartographic layers is significantly increasing according to the scale factor when moving to a larger scale. The general geographic content serves as a basis of the thematic content and contribute its correct representation acoording to a specific location. The interactive tourist map of Australia supports the following functionalities: turn on and off individual layers, report object information of ArcGIS layers (by identifying tourist attractions as waterfalls, lakes, caves, significant rock features, best beaches, most popular golf courses, main roads, great train journeys, longest ferry line), mapscale dependent view of layers, view the map in an individual scale, hot-links for e-mail and other URL-addresses (internal and external links for multimedia data such as images and video), map tips, scale bar, coordinate read-out, measurement tools. The designed map is useful for people all over the world because of the many fields of its application like tourism, education, public services, presentation and many others.
Keywords
web-mapping; cartography; data integration