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Treffer: Designs and Lessons Learned in Object-Oriented Web-Based Mapping

Title:
Designs and Lessons Learned in Object-Oriented Web-Based Mapping
Authors:
Wilson, Ruth, McCreedy, Frank, Ladner, Roy, Chung, Miyi, Shaw, Kevin
Contributors:
NAVAL RESEARCH LAB STENNIS SPACE CENTER MS MARINE GEOSCIENCES DIV
Source:
DTIC AND NTIS
Publication Year:
2000
Collection:
Defense Technical Information Center: DTIC Technical Reports database
Subject Terms:
Computer Programming and Software, Cartography and Aerial Photography, INFORMATION RETRIEVAL, GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS, OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING, DATA BASES, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, INFORMATION TRANSFER, COMPUTER COMMUNICATIONS, INTERNET, GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE, JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
Document Type:
Fachzeitschrift text
File Description:
text/html
Language:
English
Relation:
http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA385400
Availability:
http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA385400
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA385400
Rights:
APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE
Accession Number:
edsbas.6E9ED2D2
Database:
BASE

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This paper presents a summary of designs used in developing an object-oriented web-based mapping application. The Web Mapping Toolkit (WMT) is a Java applet which accesses mapping data from the Geospatial Information Database (GIDB). The GIDB is an object-oriented database developed by the Naval Research Laboratory which stores multiple data types from many sources. The motivation for development of the WMT is to allow users to access geographical data over the Internet through a web browser, without the necessity of specialized software or hardware. Main topics of discussion for the design of the WMT will include choice of programming languages and data transfer protocols, object-oriented design applied to mapping, use of object-oriented pointers for efficient retrieval, interface definition language (idl) design choices, and factors associated with map display. Lessons learned throughout the design process will also be presented. ; Pub. in Proceedings of Southern Conference on Computing, Mississippi, 26-28 Oct 2000.