| FEATURE |
STATIC MAPS |
DYNAMIC MAPS |
| Flexibility & Currency |
Adding new properties or layers requires work flows often involving several players, including a business person, cartographer, web designer and web master |
Dynamic maps can be updated by the GIS technician with the change visible immediately on the internet |
| Zooming |
As snapshots, the quantity and quality of geography and labeling is limited to what is legible at the single scale |
As the user zooms in closer, more detail, more layers, more and bigger labels can be displayed automatically - users can choose their desired scale |
| Holistic Context - big picture, small picture |
If your company has three properties you’ll need three maps and a key map, thereby losing connectivity and seamlessness |
The user can start at the key level and zoom in to one property, then back out to the larger context - our product also features Quick Views, in which each property can have a predefined zoom level |
| Intuitive - point and click web paradigm |
Although you can create hot spots on static maps to generate more information, users are unlikely to expect it when they see a static image |
The very nature of dynamic mapping leads the user to point and click in an exploratory fashion. Most web users are now familiar with MapQuest navigation |
| Layers |
You can show a limited number of features at a time - eg. Claim area superimposed over Aeromagnetic image |
You can turn features on and off (eg soil cover, geologic zones, Aeromagnetic, satellite images, Relief etc) without changing the area shown |
| Cartography |
Some people claim that with static maps they can produce more artful, cartographic presentations |
With fully programmable display rules to turn layers on and off at different zooom levels, and the ability to use raster images as backgrounds or layers,we can achieve the same cartographic quality, with more flexibility. |
