================================================ MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ** MAPS-L ================================================ 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. see remainder of article at the link above ... .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._ ANGIE COPE American Geographical Society Library UW Milwaukee 2311 E. Hartford Avenue Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53201 http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/index.html Hours: M-F 8:00am-4:30pm [log in to unmask] (414) 229-6282 (800) 558-8993 (US TOLL FREE) (414) 229-3624 (FAX) Map Librarian, MAPS-L Moderator http://www.uwm.edu/Libraries/AGSL/welcome_to_mapsl%20forum.html .:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._.:*~*:._