Abstract
Planning Document with Live Maps Using ArcGIS Engine
Track: Application Development
Author(s): Ashwini Wakchaure, Paul Zwick
In this study, we explore methods for creating a dynamic planning document with mapping capabilities and tools for better integration between text and spatial elements. Urban planning is spatial in nature, and therefore maps are an integral part of the most planning documents. However, the maps contained in the document are static images of actual maps. If these maps can be live, and if they can be accessed from the planning document, then planners can communicate the spatial information in a much better way. We worked with ArcEngine, and Microsoft Word, to create an embedded GIS application in the Microsoft word, that connects each map in the document with the actual map (mxd) document. We also integrated linking capability between text selection and selected features, layers or maps in the document, and built a ‘find in spatial data’ functionality that works with the text selection and layer data tables.
Ashwini Wakchaure
University of Florida
318 University Apts ##8
Gainesville , Florida 32603
United States
Phone: 3522625936
E-mail: ashwiniw@ufl.edu
Paul Zwick
University of Florida
Architecture Building, University of Florida
Gainesville , Florida 32611
United States
Phone: (352) 392-0997
E-mail: pdzwick@ufl.edu