This article deals with the development of an interactive up-to-date Pacific Islands Web GIS Atlas. It focuses on the compilation of spatial data from the twelve member countries of the University of the South Pacific (Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Kiribati Islands, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Niue, Tonga, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, and Western Samoa). A previous bitmap web Atlas was created in 1996, and was a pilot activity investigating the potential for using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the South Pacific. The objective of the new atlas is to provide sets of spatial and attributive data and maps for use of educators, students, researchers, policy makers and other relevant user groups and the public. GIS is a highly flexible and dynamic technology that allows the construction and analysis of maps and data sets from a variety of sources and formats. Nowadays, GIS application has moved from local and client-server applications to a three-tier architecture: Client (Web Browser) -- Application Web Map Server -- Spatial Data Warehouses. The objective of this project is to produce an Atlas that will include interactive maps and data on an Application Web Map Server. Intergraph products such as GeoMedia Professional, Web Map and Web Publisher have been selected for the web atlas production and design. In an interactive environment, an atlas will be composed from a series of maps and data profiles, which will be based on legend entries, queries, hot spots and cartographic tools. Only the first stage of development of the atlas and related technological solutions are outlined in this article.

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十二个太平洋岛屿国家的交互式 GIS Web-Atlas

本文涉及交互式最新太平洋岛屿 Web GIS Atlas 的开发。它侧重于汇编南太平洋大学十二个成员国（库克群岛、斐济群岛、基里巴斯群岛、马绍尔群岛、瑙鲁、纽埃、汤加、图瓦卢、托克劳、所罗门群岛、瓦努阿图和西萨摩亚）。之前的位图网络图集创建于 1996 年，是一项试点活动，旨在调查在南太平洋使用地理信息系统 (GIS) 的潜力。新地图集的目标是为教育工作者、学生、研究人员、政策制定者和其他相关用户群体和公众提供一套空间和属性数据和地图。GIS 是一种高度灵活和动态的技术，允许构建和分析来自各种来源和格式的地图和数据集。如今，GIS应用已经从本地和客户端-服务器应用转向三层架构：客户端（Web浏览器）——应用Web地图服务器——空间数据仓库。该项目的目标是生成一个地图集，其中将包含应用程序 Web 地图服务器上的交互式地图和数据。鹰图产品如 GeoMedia Professional、Web Map 和 Web Publisher 已被选择用于网络地图集的制作和设计。在交互式环境中，地图集将由一系列地图和数据配置文件组成，这些地图和数据配置文件将基于图例条目、查询、热点和制图工具。