HTML and multimedia Web GIS

Author

Soomro, Tariq Rahim ; Zheng, Kougen ; Pan, Yunhe

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou, China

fYear

1999

fDate

1999

Firstpage

371

Lastpage

382

Abstract

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a platform-independent method of identifying a document´s structure and references. The Web is a distributed hypertext multimedia information service that has brought millions of non-academic and academic users to the Internet. In constrast to traditional GIS, multimedia Web GIS is not only able to collect, analyze and store data in traditional formats i.e. text, images and graphs but also audio, animations and video, using all the techniques, advantages and multimedia facilities of the Web. This paper explains multimedia data and the advantages of multimedia GIS (MMGIS) over traditional GIS. HTML plays a robust role in the development of the multimedia Web GIS. Through HTML our multimedia Web GIS can be viewed in three different categories. These are Static Web GIS, Dynamic Web GIS, and Active Web GIS. These three broad categories are also discussed

Keywords

Internet; geographic information systems; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; multimedia computing; Active Web GIS; Dynamic Web GIS; HTML; Internet; MMGIS; Static Web GIS; Web; distributed hypertext multimedia information service; multimedia GIS; multimedia Web GIS; Animation; Computer science; Electrical capacitance tomography; Geographic Information Systems; HTML; Image analysis; Markup languages; Robustness;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, 1999. ICCIMA '99. Proceedings. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Delhi

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0300-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICCIMA.1999.798559

Filename

798559