Costs associated with dedicated internet map servers
Unfortunately, all these excellent features of dedicated Internet
map server solutions do come at a cost:
- Price (several thousands of US dollars);
- Expertise is required to install, customize and manage the Internet
map server;
- Full access to the hosting Web server is required to install and
manage software components (not always possible with mainstream
(cheap) shared virtual hosting packages offered by most Web Hosting
Providers; for example, HCM current Web hosting package does not
allow full access to the hosting server to install extra software);
and - ESRI MapCafe Java applet might be slow to download (depending
on speed of client's Internet connection).
This paper describes a simple, low-cost way that has been developed
for HCM to serve hypermaps with dynamic database drill-down functionality
(dynamic database links) without the need for a dedicated Internet
Map Server.
WebView features
WebView was developed by Thomas Zerweck at ZEBRIS in Munich, Germany.
It was programmed in Avenue (an ArcView scripting language), HTML
(HyperText Markup Language - for the Web templates) and JavaScript
(to add additional interactive functionality to its client-side
Web maps). It is much cheaper compared to a dedicated ESRI Internet
Map Server solution, though not as powerful as the latter.
A WebView wizard leads users through the necessary steps in ArcView
GIS and creates the project's Web pages (based on the active view
in ArcView at the time the wizard is launched - Figures 4, 5 and
6). These pages can then be edited manually if necessary in any
HTML editor. The created map pages and interface can provide the
following functionality.
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