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Track: Petroleum, Mining, Geosciences
Kim Esser
California State University, Sonoma
526 B Street Apt J
Santa Rosa, CA 95401
Telephone: 707-569-9186
Fax: 707-664-5155
E-mail: esser@sonoma.edu
Sam Shaw
A Public Viewing Tool for Archaeological Data
Defining Issue: This paper describes an application that allows controllable public access to information collected at an archaeological site. GIS Solution: ArcView GIS is customized with Avenue to produce a viewing tool that allows public access to all of the data collected at a pre-Mayan archaeological site. This ArcView application is integrated with Visual Basic to allow additional functionality. Methodology: A custom ArcView application is accessed from within a Visual Basic shell. This allows a data set collected at an archaeological site to be presented. The sources of the data are diverse including hand-written notes and sketches, photographs, and GIS features collected with GPS. The data were also collected at several different relevant spatial scales. The public can browse records, make electronic notes, or print layouts or tables. Users enjoy a number of the editing and query tools available in ArcView, but are not allowed to change any of the original information. Thus, the user can
annotate views or layouts for personal use, but the marks can always be cleared for the next user to start anew. Additional controls within the Visual Basic shell allow access to bibliographic and other types of nonspatial information. An authorization scheme provides an administrator with a tool for the protection of sensitive information. Context-sensitive help is available for guidance throughout the application. It is also possible to select some records for use as waypoints in a GPS receiver. The application reformats the selected records for import as a waypoint file in Trimble Pathfinder Office software. This allows users to revisit specific sites of interest.
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