Web Publishing

ArcIMS offers a variety of Web publishing capabilities including

Image rendering—Image rendering creates a snapshot of the current view of an interactive map. For example, as you interactively pan and zoom on a map or turn map layers on and off, an ArcIMS map server renders each view and delivers it as an image to ArcIMS clients. ArcIMS also supports image streaming.

Feature streaming—Feature streaming involves streaming vector features to clients, enabling a number of clientside tasks: feature labeling, MapTip creation, spatial selection, and more. Feature streaming is important for more advanced ArcIMS clients including ArcExplorer—Java Edition, ArcGIS Desktop, and the ArcIMS—Java viewers. Streamed features from ArcIMS Web sites can be integrated with other features, such as local data, and used together in analysis.

Data query—You can create queries to derive specific information. The client submits the query to the server, and the server submits the results to the client.

Data extraction—You can request geographic data sets from the server. The server responds to a request for data by sending zipped data files in a selected format to the client (for example, as shapefiles) for local use.

Geocoding—This allows you to submit an address and receive a location from the ArcIMS Geocoding Service. Based on your address input, the server returns either the location of an exact match to the address or a list of candidates.

Metadata—ArcIMS publishes metadata created using ArcGIS Desktop and stored in ArcSDE. These metadata services provide the ability for users to perform metadata catalog searches and, optionally, view results in map viewers.