Teaching and old map new tricks

Its 2008 and we see that there are an increasing number of amazing technologies that have brought Geographic Information Systems (GIS) applications to new levels of power and usability.

One of the most recent and exciting developments capturing the attention of many GIS users is AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML). And with Image-Mapper, otherwise ordinary spatial data can be given new life and vitality, using a combination of several existing technologies recently including AJAX.

Invented by Jesse James Garrett of Adaptive Path in 2005, AJAX is not for kitchen sinks, rather it is an approach to web applications that involves the marrage of several existing technologies.