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* PLEASE NOTE: This page and its links are best viewed in Internet Explorer (v 5.5 sp2) with a screen area of 1024 x 768 pixels!
The purpose of this site is to evaluate methods of distributing geographically referenced digital data via the world wide web for use in Geographic Information Systems and coastal management applications. More specifically, the site intends to make geographic data of the Wisconsin coast more accessible by gathering this information into a single resource that is freely available to the public. The site also hopes to make the data more flexible by allowing the user to interactively select data layers and specific areas of interest at a variety of zoom levels. The site utilizes OrthoServer technology -- an open-source web mapping software package developed at MIT -- to generate seamless image mosaics of large raster data sets. This OrthoServer site is an OGC-compliant Web Map Server (WMS) meeting the specifications of the Web Mapping Testbed (WMT) Version 1.0.0.
Simply click on the image category of interest and the Orthoserver interface will appear.
Please direct your questions, comments, and suggestions to:
This project was made possible by support from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Detroit District, the Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute, and the Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility at the University of Wisconsin -- Madison. Although the Wisconsin Coastal GIS Applications Project is solely responsible for the information contained herein, the project cannot take credit for the software tools that made it possible. The development of this website is deeply indebted to the web mapping server technology developed by MIT (OrthoServer).
A list of additional sites utilizing similar web mapping technology:
Lake Superior Coastal Orthoserver: http://ortho.lic.wisc.edu/Welcome_superior.html
