Dynamic Digital Maps

PROJECT MANAGEMENT: Department of Geosciences, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

DESCRIPTIONS: A Dynamic Digital Map is a stand-alone “presentation manager” program that displays and links maps, images, movies, data and text, such as map explanations and field trip guides. DDMs are web-enabled and browser independent and can be delivered via a website, or on CD/DVD/flash drives. A user, viewing DDM, will see a thematic map, containing camera icons and map symbols that link images, movies, and text or analytical data related to those locations. Searchable lists or “indexes” of images, maps, and articles, opened from buttons found on the home screen, summarize DDM content, and access to it. The home screen also provides an “index map” that graphically illustrates the coverage of maps contained in the DDM, and links to them.