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What technology is being used for the map viewer?

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What technology is being used for the map viewer?

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The LandScope website integrates several powerful technologies into a seamless experience for the user. Thematic data displayed on the map is managed and published using ArcGIS Server 9.3. Base maps come from Microsoft Virtual Earth; the user can choose from among street, satellite, and hybrid base maps. The map viewer itself has been built using an ArcGIS Server Flex API (application programming interface). Behind the scenes of LandScope is a powerful content management system that integrates with a digital asset management tool. All place-based website content is geo-referenced using this tool, meaning it is tagged with latitude/longitude coordinates to specific places. The system can manage digital content of nearly any file type (including images, audio, video, and documents) and display it via the map viewer.