What are web maps?

Web maps are just maps on the internet.

They can be static or interactive … but nowadays they’re mostly interactive.

Easy way to diffuse spatial information and provide interactivity.

Web maps help move geographic information systems and sciences to the world wide web.

Web mapping consists of three major components:

  • geography
  • information
  • the Web

In this class we’re moving in a different direction than many of your previous GIS courses. How can we use the web to make mapping useful in new and different ways?