Geoscience Reference
In-Depth Information
• What kind of maps are there? (four themes: classification of maps according to
their scale and content, thematic maps, city, road and topographic maps)
• Representation of relief (three themes: basic shapes of relief, contour lines and
hypsometry, shading)
• Rivers and lakes on maps (two themes: how to draw rivers and lakes on a map?,
special features related to hydrography)
• Other colours on maps (five themes: colours on a political map, how to draw the
frontiers and roads?, colours on a topographic map, colours on a thematic map,
other topics represented on maps)
• Symbols on maps (three themes: what kind of map symbols do you know?,
symbols drawing hydrography and relief, symbols in the school atlases)
• Latitude and longitude (four themes: geographic coordinate system, latitude,
longitude, orientation on the globe)
• Some words about the geographical names (five themes: what is a geographical
name?, grammar of geographical names, using fonts and placing names on a
map, hydrographical and relief names, the interest of a better map reading)
At same time, we also kept the themes explained in the websites dedicated toMap
History, GIS and Multimedia maps, which were developed between 2004 and 2006.
15.3.2 Technological Questions Developing the Website
After taking the decisions related to the structure of the new website, we faced
another not less important question: which environment can be most appropriate to
develop the site? Our first choice was to select PHP (Hypertext Pre-processor),
which is a widely used general purpose scripting language suited for Web develop-
ment and which can be inserted into HTML (HyperText Markup Language) too.
Searching for other possible options the use of a Content Management System
(CMS) was considered a better choice, because this kind of environment facilitates
the development of a website offering pre-programmed tools, whose use is easy to
learn. The next question was: which CMS should be selected? At present, there is a
big number (more than 100) of freely downloadable CMS in the Web: Wordpress,
Drupal, Custom CMS, Joomla, Moodle, Typo3, e107, PHPX, PHP SiteManager,
PHP SiteManager, etc. Our first condition was to choose a CMS with Hungarian
support and the second one was the security that the CMS can offer, preventing our
server from possible hacking attacks across the Web. Considering the different
options in the market, our decision was to develop the new website in the CMS
named Plone.
15.3.2.1 What Is Plone? Why Plone?
Plone is an open source content management system (CMS), whose heart is the
Zope (Z Object Publishing Environment) application server. Zope is an open
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