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Arkansas Online Interactive Mapper

 

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In 1996, CAST created the Arkansas Online Interactive Mapper, a real-time application which allowed anyone with access to the web to make a map of any area in Arkansas. Unlike a digital catalog, Mapper accessed a GIS engine and, within a few minutes, generated a map from specifications defined by the user, such as information to be displayed (i.e. vegetation, soils data, streams, railroads, schools, airports), the area to map (i.e. county, USGS quad), and the desired size and format (i.e. GIF, PDF or Postscript) for the output map. This project had been sponsored by NASA as a demonstration effort to increase the usability and access to imaging-platform-based data, particularly by state and local agencies and by the general public.

The mapper became very popular between 2000 and 2004 as a practical tool for students, hunters, and others throughout Arkansas who used it to make maps before doing research projects or going out into the field. In 2002, an average of  1,000 different maps were made each month by the system.


 Examples of PDF maps created using the Interactive Mapper.