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RE MAPS-L: Mapdex Web Portal
DA Friday 18 Nov 2005
TO Maps-L
FR Angie

from: http://www.directionsmag.com/press.releases/?duty=Show&id=13036&trv=1


    *Mapdex Web Portal Provides Fast, Efficient Access to Online Data*
    November 16, 2005

*Company:* ESRI <http://www.directionsmag.com/companies/byID.php?id=2>
*Location:* Redlands, CA, United States of America

*More Than 1,700 Public ArcIMS Servers Searchable by Spatial Layers,
Fields, Map Service Names, and More *

*Redlands, California - *A new extensive Web portal, called Mapdex, is
now available for providing access to a large and growing number of
public ArcIMS map servers. Developed by the Kansas Geological Survey at
the University of Kansas, the portal is searchable by spatial layers,
fields, and map service names. Specialists in any number of industries
can locate and use readily available data for their particular needs;
they can also learn about data origin, date of creation, scale, and any
other number of metadata variables.

"I found that there is a large amount of GIS data available to the
general public and GIS users through Internet map servers, but I also
found that users would not find this information easily by using
traditional search engines," says Jeremy Bartley, assistant GIS
coordinator and Geoinformatics project lead of the Kansas Geological
Survey at the University of Kansas. "The public needed a way to search
the actual data behind the interactive maps, and this was the impetus
behind Mapdex."

Mapdex (http://www.mapdex.org) provides an index of publicly available
ArcIMS services comprising approximately 1,715 servers, serving
approximately 30,000 map services, and containing approximately 475,000
GIS layers. It brings together a previously disparate network of GIS
services, searchable from one location, that can be tapped into by the
GIS community using just a few keyword searches and mouse clicks. Users
can search Mapdex by server, service, projection, geography, and layer
names.

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ANGIE COPE
American Geographical Society Library
UW Milwaukee
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