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Dynamic Maps : using Africover warehouses
Africover public domain data has been organized in data warehouses
to allow you to perform powerful and easy GIS operations. Dynamic
Maps is the software with which you can connect to the warehouses
and extract all the information you need. It enables anyone to access
and use the data and information in a warehouse by integrating tabular
data and digital files with maps and their map features.
Dynamic Maps is a part of a software suite called
Dynamic Atlas developed
by SKE. FAO and SKE are partners
and the software is being used by FAO to support projects around
the world.
You can download your free copy of the software
from the FAO Africover web site
or directly from the SKE download
section (use the second option to be sure to get the most updated
version of the software).
About Dynamic Maps
- Is easy to learn and use. Users don’t need to have specific
knowledge of geographic in information systems or to care about
the physical location of the data.
- Provides links from map features to associated information.
For example, click on a place and get a live report from a related
database, a document, some pictures, a URL -- anything.
- Integrates with Microsoft Power Point. Whatever you see on your
screen can become a detailed Power Point slide instantly –
ready for editing, animating, and annotating.
- Integrates with Microsoft Excel. Import Excel spreadsheets
and “map” them by linking their records to map features
on the fly. Send any or all records in a database to Excel and
maintain a link with the map. This way, you’re working in
Excel and seeing the results of your work on the map.
- Import an Atlas. Atlases can be distributed on CD and imported
by anyone using Dynamic Maps.
- Has a powerful query function enabling you to ask questions
of tabular data and map the results. E.g. Where are located all
the forest – create a map that shows the result of your
queries.
- Has a powerful class rendering function that enables you to
quickly and easily create “trend” and “indicator”
maps based on the data.
- Is “generic”, not database or system-specific, and
therefore can be used by multiple disciplines in many ways.
- Enables you to access associated tabular information without
having to know anything about the database, its structure or how
to connect to it.
- Is fully user-definable in its display. Don’t like the
color of an object or feature? – change it. Want to highlight
something – make it a different color. You can even annotate
the map with points, lines, polygons, and text.
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