How does the Vital Signs Internet Mapping Service work?
ArcIMS™ and ArcSDE™ are integrated into a tool allowing users to browse, query, and download vital signs monitoring data and spatial layers. Users can select areas of interest by drawing on maps in ArcIMS™. These custom areas can then be used to query monitoring datasets, like bird occurrence or water quality. To protect data integrity, each network stewards their own data. The VSIMS application authenticates users and displays only those data to which the user has access. Querying capability is also determined by user permissions.
