The presentation will demonstrate the implementation of the National Atlas over Sweden in ArcView. This is a product funded by the National Land Survey of Sweden and Statistics Sweden. The National Atlas over Sweden is a series of 17 books presenting geographical information about Sweden (e.g. the Population, the Environment, Geology an so on). All maps in these books (around 150 - 300 maps for each book) are made with ArcInfo. The most fundamental part of the ArcView-version is a metadatabase that organize all geographical features and statistical variables. The interface for the user to the metadatabase is through a c++ program that communicates with ArcView through DDE. The user can choose between geographical datasets, maps and pages. A page is a premade layout of a screen in ArcView. A page could for example be a combination of three views, one table one picture and a text window. The position and size of all these documents are stored in the database. The complete database will consist of around 5000 datafiles. 4000 views and 2000 pages to choose between. The metadatabase consists also of structures to search on topics or search in a hierarchy. The main users are upper secondary schools, municipalities and state organisations. Key words are System design, Graphical user interfaces, metadatabases.
Over its 60 years of existence the Colombian Geographical Institute Agustin Codazzi "IGAC" has produced the Colombian Atlas, mainly with didactic purposes. Last year the Institute launched a Beta version of the prototype of a multimedia atlas in CD-ROM and which was evaluated be chosen main users, including schools. The paper will describe the structure of the Atlas and how video, text and sound where integrated to display the various forms of geographical data. It will discuss the motivations for choosing ArcView 2.1 and ArcData publisher, in addition to the results of the evaluation of the users and how their opinions resulted in three prototypes of the Atlas - ArcView 2.1, ArcView 1 with Windows Help and latest using MapObjects. Demos will be shown.