Abstract
MAPDEX: A Global Index of Distributed ArcIMS Services Track: Spatial Data Infrastructure Author(s): Jeremy Bartley, Asif Iqbal Do you want to find and use over 1,300 Landsat scenes? 3,500 ortho layers? 6,500 parcel layers? 18,000 road layers? All publicly accessible over the Internet as a map service? If so, then you need Mapdex. Mapdex is an index of publicly available ArcIMS services comprising 1,400 servers, serving 24,500 map services, containing over 400,000 GIS Layers, covering more than 3,250,000 columns! Mapdex is built on the Google premise. If you are publishing geospatial data, then Mapdex will harvest that information and share it to the broader international community. Mapdex is built with the Google Web Service API, Esri ArcIMS, Oracle XMLDB, and ColdFusion MX. Using Mapdex will allow you to locate and use spatial information from all over the world. Mapdex also allows you to map multiple map services simultaneously from within one Web-based application. Take your geoportal to the next step at http://www.mapdex.org. Jeremy Bartley Kansas Geological Survey GIS Services 1930 Constant Avenue Lawrence , KS 66047 US Phone: 785-864-2126 E-mail: jbartley@kgs.ku.edu Asif Iqbal Kansas Geological Survey GIS Services 1930 Constant Avenue Lawrence , KS 66047 US Phone: 785-864-2065 E-mail: aiqbal@kgs.ku.edu |
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