Geography Reference
In-Depth Information
Figure 9.
3D Modell of the Church of the Natividad in Villasandino, Spain. It is the cartographic basis
of an architectural GIS (Task Group's Partner:
DAVAP Research Team
, University of Valladolid, Spain).
On the other hand, dissemination processes of the Cultural Heritage involve presentation,
publishing and prepress, including geoportal design and maintenance. But nowadays
dissemination becomes supported by using the Internet and digital storage media [14].
According to Jessop [15], the presence of maps -and other cultural heritage informations- on
the web, promotes “heritage material to new audiences, both specialists and general, across
many social and cultural groups.”
Books' editors as Scribus and SIGIL, as well as other office tools for document production
and data processing (OpenOffice, AbiWord, LibreOffice, NeoOffice for Mac, among others)
are suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks, spreadsheets, presentations,
graphics, databases and more. They store all the data in an international standard format
and can also read and write files from other common office software packages.
There are also free multiplatform web editors, i.e. tools used to create and upgrade documents
directly on the web. Browsing features are seamlessly integrated with the editing and remote
access features in an uniform environment. Some combine web file management and easy-to-
use WYSIWYG web page editing, and have been designed to be extremely easy to use, making
them ideal for non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-
looking web site without needing to know HTML or web coding. Thus, the web becomes a
space for collaboration, and not just a one-way publishing medium.
The offer of free software is wide (Amaya, Aptana, Kompozer, and Nvu can be mentioned),
but MapServer is a specific program for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping
applications to the web, running on all major platforms (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X).
