| | 5 | The project was born of necessity and frustration with commercial Web-based mapping offerings available in the mid-1990s. The initial interest was in developing spatially-enabled Web applications and not the software to make that possible. |
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| | 7 | == 1994 == |
| | 8 | |
| | 9 | * initial effort to develop decision support system for recreational users of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota, USA |
| | 10 | * initially basic configuaration to submit web requests to AML routines, rendered with !ArcPlot |
| | 11 | * 30 seconds to render maps |
| | 12 | * licensing limitations |
| | 13 | * UMN awarded with NASA/ForNet funding to support web-based delivery of forestry data |
| | 14 | * 2 output CGI processes |
| | 15 | * classified imagery output ("imgserv"); CGI process |
| | 16 | * context data output ("mapserv") |
| | 17 | * integration with Java applets |
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