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Digital Aerial Photo Image Server
Montgomery County, MD
Population: 757,027
Program Year: 2003
Abstract:
The Montgomery County, Maryland Department of Technology Services - Geographic Information Systems (DTS-GIS) team, in cooperation with the Montgomery County Archives (MCA), developed the Digital Aerial Photo Image Server (DAPIS) to enable the public (customers) to locate, display, download, and print archived high-resolution digital aerial photo or ortho-photo images over the Internet using a web browser, such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft’s Internet Explorer. Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) software, developed by Lizardtech, Inc., and GIS software, developed by Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI), were used to prepare and serve available archived digital photos from 1951, 1970, 1979, 1993-1996,1998, 2000, and 2002. Microsoft’s Active Server page (ASP) technology was used to create a web-based aerial photo map index application to enable customers to find and select a photo by map grid on the digital image archive server. An image viewer is used to display selected digital images and allows customers to adjust zoom scale and image size. Customers can also print or download the photo image using their web browser. Additional image viewers are also provided to enable the customer to better display, pan, and zoom about the photo image. DAPIS can be accessed by visiting the Montgomery County Government GIS web site http://gis.montgomerycountymd.gov/.
Contact:
Michael Knuppel
Chief Technology Officer
Department of Technology Services
Executive Office Building
Rockville, MD 20850
Phone: (240) 777-8006
Fax: (240) 777-2831
For more information regarding individual programs, please contact the county contact person listed. For more information about NACo's Achievement Award program,
please contact Kathryn Murphy
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