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Understand the concept of mapping, learn how to create mappings, and explore the benefits and tools of mapping. Get a preview of a mapping tool and find answers to commonly asked questions.
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What is a Mapping? Creating Mappings Preview of Mapping Tool Tools Benefits Questions Outline
What is a Mapping? • The definition of Mapping refers to the visualization of spatial data within a map. • In simple terms is selecting an area of interest within a map or image and storing relevant information that describes it.
What is a Mapping? Image of Rice County, Minnesota. Find the “Dudley Lake”! Dudley Lake, Rice County, MN Type: USGS Topo Map: Elevation: City: Lat.: Long.: Lake Faribault 1054 feet Wells Township 44°20'56.98"N 93°21'42.57"W
Bahía de Jobos Creating Mappings • Using an images as background, the users will have the option of creating vectors and/or polygons that represent a particular region or area of importance.
Bahía de Jobos Creating Mappings • The new mapping will be associated with information like: Ex. continent, country, city, neighborhood, elevation, type, etc… • And stored inside a Database. Information: Bay Bahía de Jobos Salinas Puerto Rico
Bahía de Jobos Creating Mappings • Or we can import Mappings already available by using global formats. • KML (Keyhole Markup Language) format used by Google. • And stored inside a Database. KML Information: Bay Bahía de Jobos Salinas Puerto Rico
Creating Mappings • The output of the tool will be database entries with the names of the regions and references to the images that make up that region. • For use by other applications within the WALSAIP project.
Preview of Mapping Tool • The database will facilitate finding the stored mappings, using the search options of Mappings and Image Filters. • Current mappings names will be displayed for quick reference. • Real-time action information will be shown, for quick error corrections. • Mapping Area
Tools Web Service Apache HTTP Server HTML (HyperText Markup Language) CSS Database PostgreSQL Programming PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor Zend Optimizer JavaScript AJAX or (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML)
Benefits • An organized database where users can find information fast. • Capable of importing mapping data to our database. • Capable of display different types of images in the background. • Multiplatform. • Open Source code will allow the application to be enhanced further in the future.