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>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 13:09:34 +0700
>From: [log in to unmask] (Dale Steele)
>Subject: NSDI_L MIT/MassGIS Ortho Browser node on NSDI Clearinghouse
 
 
Johnny-
This was posted to NSDI-L; thought MAPS-L folk might be interested too.
 
Dale
 
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>Subject: NSDI_L MIT/MassGIS Ortho Browser node on NSDI Clearinghouse
>Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 11:33:20 EDT
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>    We are pleased to announce the availability of an MIT
>website:
>                http://ortho.mit.edu
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>for browsing (and downloading) MassGIS digital orthophotos
>(and related metadata) of the Boston area.  The ortho browser
>uses 'perl' scripts on a Web-server to do on-the-fly extraction,
>formatting, and downloading of digital ortho snippets from a
>repository of MassGIS orthos that are catalogued and documented
>using 'mp' compliant metadata.  These metadata can be searched
>using Z39.50 protocols through an implementation of geospatial
>Isite tools provided by CNIDR.
>
>     We are interested in comments from readers of the nsdi_l and
>clearhs_wg lists not only about the general utility of the site
>and its user interface, but also about the design of the ortho
>browsing and metadata handling tools.  For example,
>
>    (a) the metadata contain URLs that link to the ortho browser
>and they can edited/updated using MS-Word's 'mailmerge' to merge
>a table of the (few) things that vary about each ortho with a
>'template' that has the picky spacing/indenting/tagging that is
>required by the metadata parser, and
>
>    (b) the ortho browser focuses on server-side tools that allow
>customized snippets of orthos to be generated on-the-fly and
>downloaded (with coordinates) in a form that is registered and
>ready-for-use by popular desktop mapping packages (like ArcView
>and MapInfo).
>
>A link (http://ortho.mit.edu/nsdi/summary.html) from the main
>project page explains more about the project goals and design
>strategy.  We look forward to your comments.
>
>===========================================
>Prof. Joseph Ferreira, Jr.
>Head, Planning Support Systems Group
>MIT Department of Urban Studies & Planning
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>M.I.T. Room 9-516
>77 Massachusetts Ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
>Phone: (617) 253-7410, Fax: (617) 253-3625
>E-Mail: [log in to unmask]
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