ARTICLES
YOU Juan, ZHOU Yanbing, WANG Jihua, PAN Yuchun, ZHANG Wuming
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2010, 12(2):
248-253.
With the rapid development of Internet and WebGIS,there are more and more extensive applications of the WebGIS statistics thematic maps in recent years.ArcIMS provides a way to make the statistics thematic map and releases it through the network,but its functionality is still not perfect.It can only provide two kinds of charts,i.e.pie and column charts,the type is very limited,and the aesthetics is not strong.What's more,as the feature-map and statistical thematic chart are generated on the server side at the same time and then transfered to the client side,so the load of server is high and network transmission is slow.The aim of this study was to provide a new method for making statistical thematic maps using ArcIMS combined FushionCharts,which is a chart component.The author refered to nearly 40 kinds of SWF files provided by FusionCharts,wrote a class which was used for converting the data's format into xml,then sended the SWF file and XML to the client,analysed through the flash plug-in of the client to generate statistical thematic chart,used the spatial geological place points coordinates,overlaid to feature-map which was made by ArcIMS on the server side to form the statistical thematic maps finally.This method generates the feature-map and thematic statistical chart on the server and client side,respectively.Compared with the traditional methods using ArcIMS only,it has a more simple production process;includes nearly 40 kinds of beautiful,highly interactive types of statistical thematic charts,making the form of charts abundant and visual,meeting the user's requirements more fully.In addition,it generates the feature-map on the client side separately,without the generation of thematic statistical chart formed on the server,so it is a good way to reduce the load of the server,making double the speed of network transmission.At last,a specific example of using this method is given,showing that it can make multiform,dynamic and good looking statistical thematic maps easier and faster.