- Xerox PARC Map Viewer
Xerox PARC Map Viewer was one of the earliest static
web mapping sites, developed by Steve Putz in June 1993 atXerox Corporation 'sPalo Alto Research Center (PARC). The Xerox PARC Map Viewer was an experiment in providing interactiveinformation retrieval , rather than access to just static files, on theWorld Wide Web (Putz 1994).Map Viewer used a customized CGI server module written in
Perl . Map images were generated inGIF format from two server side programs. MAP-WRITER created theraster images from the geographic database and RASTOGIF would convert the raster image into the GIF format.Xerox has since discontinued the Map Viewer service.
Externa links
* [http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/mapdocs/ About the Xerox PARC Map Viewer]
* [http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/www94/iisuwwwh.html Interactive Information Services Using World-Wide Web Hypertext] , paper by Steve Puts (1994)
* [http://www2.parc.com/istl/projects/www94/mapviewer.html An Interactive Map Viewer] , section from that paper describing the map server
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