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Dit artikel werd als lezing gepresenteerd op de studiedag GIS in het
Web van de NVK-werkgroep Nieuwe Visualisatie Technologie in de-
cember 1999.
De aangepaste versie hiervan is uit het Engels vertaald door F.J. Or-
meling en B.J. Köbben.
Summary
A. Neumann D. Richard - Internet Atlas of Switzerland. New
developments and improvements
Keywords: production of geographical Information, Internet,
atlas cartography, survey
The Internet is a rapidly growing medium. Since the introduction
of the WWW (around ippi at CERN), with its possibility ofpre-
senting combined graphics and text and the ability of linking to
other documents, it seems to be the ideal medium for presenting
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scientific (and other) information. From the very beginning maps
have pLtyed an important role in presenting spatial information
on the Internet. Unfortunately, many of them are ofpoor graphic-
al quality, and Lack consistenteasy to use interfaces. Furthermore,
many are static and do not provide much more interaction than
just simple clickable image maps. We are now at the threshold be-
tween the fourth andfifth browser generation. Since the 4th gene-
ration many new technologies have been added to the web brow-
sers (HTML4, CSS, improved Scripting, event models, new plug-
ins etc.) that make those browsers ideal plaforms for presenting
cartographic data in a distributed, plaform-independent but still
highly interactive manner. This paper reports on the current pro-
ject of the Internet Atlas of Switzerland, the technology we use
and our plans for the fiiture.
Resume
A. Neumann D. Richard - L Atlas de Suisse sur /'Internet.
Nouveaux developpements et ameliorations
Mots-cles: production de l'information geographique, Inter
net, cartographie d'atlas, etude
Depuis son introduction, l'Intemet est un media en pleine evolu-
tion, avec des avantages de pouvoir contenir graphiques, textes et
d'autres documents, Solution ideale pour la presentation d'infor-
mations scientifiques (et autres). Des le debut, les cartes y ontjoue
un role important lors de la presentation des phenomenes spatiaux
dont, malheureusement, souvent, de mediocre qualite graphique et
sans consistences, permettant d'utiliser l'interfaces. De plus, sou
vent aussi, de caractere statique oü l'interaction se limite cliquer
l'image. Actuellement nous sommes au seuil entre la quatrieme et
la cinquiemegeneration de 'browsers'et de nouvelles technologiesy
ont ete introduites: HTML HyperText Markage Language,
CSS Cascading Style Sheet, criture amelioree, modeles d'evene-
ment, nouveaux raccordements etc., platefiormes ideales pour la
presentation de cartes d'une fagon independante, mais toujours
fort interactive. L'article presente l'etat d'avancement actuel du
projet Internet Atlas of Switzerland, la technologie utilisee et les
plans d'avenir.
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