CoastGIS’99: geomatics and coastal environment
Basic®, JavaScript and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Major
features of the site include an interactive mapping application (see
fig. 3), marine and coastal spatial data and download tools, associated
metadata, and legal summary pages, all designed to support regional
ocean management.
The project is targeted at the individual southeastern coastal states and
allows the ocean resource manager to examine the significant issues
and data of the region in conjunction with the supporting text that describes the laws. The system supports analysis from a particular area of
regulated interest, such as marine plastics disposal, or from spatial analysis such as a particular geographic location (e.g., point on the map).
Standard GIS functions are supported, such as view, change layer, pan,
zoom and query. The unique element in this project is the linkage between the policy and its geography. Each applicable data layer contains
an attribute link to the appropriate legislation. Using the power of
HTML, the attribute is linked to the text version of the legal description.
Figure 3
The Ocean Planning
Information System (OPIS)
Internet mapping
application.
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