Equipping a Computer Laboratory for Teaching the Techniques of Dynamic Digital Map Making

通过这个项目，地球科学系提供了设备，使它能够教授一种新技术，从而能够及时、廉价地出版高质量的彩色地质图和辅助数据，作为台式计算机上的独立程序。 这种技术的结果是一个动态数字地图（DDM）模板，一个基于超媒体的地图和数据表示管理器。 DDM是使用超媒体创作环境制作的，通过将数字地图和数据插入为此目的而设计的DDM模板中。 第一个DDM已经由美国地质学会出版，这是它第一次尝试基于超媒体的数字地图出版;它已经在岩石学课程中获得了巨大的成功。 另一个是新英格兰动态数字地质图，用于物理地质学课程，以预览阿巴拉契亚山脉的全天实地考察（它包括地图，文本，QuickTime电影，动画框图和数码照片，其中许多是倾斜的空中，所有这些都可以通过点击访问）。 预计将出版许多类似的出版物（有些正在出版，一份已完成）;这些地图易于使用，能够准确地传输大量相关数据，并具有不同的用户复杂程度，因此有可能激发公众对地球科学的兴趣和进行一般教育。

Through this project, the Department of Geosciences provides equipment that enables it to teach a new technique that permits the timely, inexpensive publication of highquality color geologic maps and ancillary data as stand-alone programs on the desktop computer. This technique results in a Dynamic Digital Map (DDM) Template, a hypermedia-based map and data presentation manager. DDMs are made using a hypermedia authoring environment, by inserting digital maps and data into a DDM Template, designed for this use. The first DDM has been published by the Geological Society of America in its first venture into hypermedia-based digital map publication; it has been used with great success in a Petrology course. Another, the Dynamic Digital Geologic Map of New Englald, is used in a Physical Geology course to preview an all-day field trip across the Appalachian Mountains (it includes maps, text, QuickTime Movies, animated block diagrams and digital photos, many of which are oblique aerial, all accessible by point-and-click). Numerous similar publications (some underway, one completed) are anticipated; the ease of use of these maps and their capability to transmit large amounts of linked data accurately, and at several different levels of user sophistication, make it possible to stimulate the interest and general education of the public in geosciences.