Internet Mapping Server Projects
Though I have modified and maintained
some Internet mapping sites that use ESRI's MapObjects, the vast majority of
my experience falls under ESRI's latest IMS
technology, ArcIMS. I have created a
reusable template "from scratch" for ArcIMS using ASP.
This extensible template sped site development
considerably as it was designed to be quite easy to
customize. These applications run on Microsoft IIS,
and are live on the Internet today.
To date, the most popular site has been the Historical Hurricane Tracks Tool, which allows users to query a system that includes over one-hundred years of tropical storms on the East Coast of the United States to see what storms might have passed through their neighborhood. This site was highlighted at USAToday.com in a weather article. An in-depth consideration of the technologies used was given as part of a presentation at the 2002 ESRI Users' Conference, summarized in this abstract.
Another complicated site is the "RAster Data Delivery System" or RADD, pictured above. This site uses ArcIMS to provide visualization aids to users who want to download C-CAP Data from around the country. My responsibilities included not only the creation of the ArcIMS interface, but also the Java middleware that forwards requests to IMAGINE (a GIS tool suite that can clip raster data), zips the results with customized metadata (also made by the middleware), places the data on a publicly available ftp site, and emails the user that their request is ready.
Links to site descriptions
Historical Hurricane Tracks Tool -- Example: Ten Costliest Hurricanes
NOTE: CSC has moved from ActiveX to Java for IMS. The hurricanes site has been largely rewritten, but the core functionality is the same.
RAster Data Delivery system description (site archived)