Autodesk MapGuide 6

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Autodesk MapGuide 6 Documentation. Two short but effective manuals:. Autodesk MapGuide User’s Guide. Autodesk MapGuide Developer’s Guide …

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GI News ?March 2002 1
When GIS met the
Internet
The rapid development of the
World Wide Web from about
1993 sent a shudder through
the GIS industry. Desktop GIS
products such as ArcView and
MapInfo were proving to be
both popular and profitable.
Yet, most of the installed
desktops were being used
primarily for viewing maps or
querying databases, despite the
high licence costs and the
demands that the software
placed on the machines of that
era. The arrival of a technology
that had the potential to
replace high-cost software and
machines with a solution that
could be used with any
machine equipped with a web
browser was not necessarily
going to be welcomed by the
software developers.
Mapping on the web
The web was designed from
scratch as a medium for both
graphics and text. Purists keen
to use scarce bandwidth
economically on low-speed
network connections scorned
graphics-rich web
environments, but, with
relatively few exceptions, web
designers increasingly used
more and more graphics in
their pages. The first facilities
simply placed an image at a
defined location on the web
page. However, image maps
were soon developed which
allowed a degree of interaction.
Defined…