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Currently the mapserver makes possible to access five main databases developed and
managed by CIMEC with financial support from the Ministry of Culture and National
Heritage: Archaeological Repertory Archive (comprising aproximate 8900 archaeological
sites), the database of the Archaeological Researches in Romania (1983 - 2007) that
comprises over 3000 archaeological reports, Archaeological Repertory of România
- Archive Of The 'Vasile Parvan' Institute Of Archaeology - with 8887 sites, the
Guide of Museums and Collections in Romania, including over 740 museums in Romania,
and Places of Worship in Romania (18,600 entries)
Atlasul Etnografic Roman - proiect pilot: Horezu, judetul Valcea
Precise location for the archaeological sites in Romania. Pilot Project:
Valea Mostistei
Planuri de cercetare pentru siturile arheologice din Romania - proiect
pilot
Info
About the MapServer of CIMEC
In 2006 the Institute for Cultural Memory - CIMEC launched
the MapServer for the National Cultural Heritage allowing the inclusion of several
thematic maps, by using specific GIS tools. The major advantage resides in the easy
way in which thematic maps (for instance: the spatial distribution of archaeological
sites in Romania) are carried out through the Internet and by means of a simple
Internet browser, the MapServer developed by CIMEC being compatible with all the
existing Internet browsers. The main features include: zoom-in, zoom-out, pan, interrogation,
selection by locality, county, historical regions and economic development regions,
and print.
Software
Mapserver
is an open source platform for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping
applications to the web, freely available for download online. Originally developed
in the mid-1990 at the University of Minnesota (USA), initially in cooperation with
NASA, MapServer is not a full-featured GIS system, nor does it aspire to be. MapServer
allows you create maps that can direct users to content and provides spatial context
where needed.
Cartography
The MapServer of CIMEC http://map.cimec.ro
uses as spatial information a GIS database for Romania at the scale 1:100,000 that
comprises: all the towns and villages in Romania, the European, national, county
and communal roads, the railways network, the river and stream networks, and lakes,
including also lad use and digital elevation model. We obtained it due to the kindness
of the General Division for the Conservation
of Nature, Biodiversity, Biosecurity, Soil and Subsoil in the Romanian Ministry
of the Environment (in 2005). We also included the digital elevation
model obtained by processing the
SRTM (NASA) set of data for Romania and GTOPO30 (U.S. Geological Survey) for territories
outside Romania, and the land-use/land cover model by processing the CORINE Land Cover (European Environment Agency)
Content
Currently the MapServer makes possible to access five main
online databases developed and managed by CIMEC with financial support from the
Ministry of Culture and Cultural Heritage:
Use
These databases can be consulted both by means of the digital
map of Romania, activating the interrogation button, and by the advanced search
form of the online databases interface, allowing multiple search criteria. The tools
developed for the current version of the MapServer, as well as the links between
the MapServer and the databases allow the spatial queries of the archaeological
sites, of the museums or churches, simply by using of the symbol on the digital
map, and also the display on the detailed information about the cultural entity.
Thus, a simple search into these databases, by using any advanced search criterion,
enabled the display of the relevant item on the map
Location Precision
Currently, the location of the sites is carried out by
the centre of the locality on whose territory they are found according to the SIRUTA
administrative division code. One reason is to protect vulnerable sites, monuments
or buildings from robbery. The second one is that we have few detailed maps of towns
and villages or precise geographical location for sites. In order to surpass this
inconvenient, CIMEC began to develop a programme for the exact identification and
location of sites, in cooperation with local museums and using the GPS system, on
the Mostistea Valley, Calarasi County, (2004 ? 2008), and the aerial survey of Southern
Romania (2007 ? 2015), both with support of European Projects ? European Landscapes:
Past, Present and Future and ArchaeoLandscapes Europe. We also received contributions
form institutions and archaeologists in the country. The field data collected for
the county archaeological inventories, on public money, starting with 2005, are
another potential source of enriching the National Archaeological Record database
if these data are made available to CIMEC by the Ministry of Culture. The later
development of the MapServer will enable viewing on the digital map of Romania the
topographical plans and the archaeological sites and the archaeological excavation
plans etc. (only by password) and will also aim at integrating all the databases
developed and maintained by CIMEC. The spatial database will be further developed
by adding satellite imagery, colour, and black and white air-photos
Project team
Ionuț Șandric (cartography, mapserver), Irina Oberländer-Târnoveanu,
Bogdan Șandric, Carmen Bem; Cosmin Miu (database, web)
25.01.2011
Mapserver help
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Mapserver tools
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Zoom in. Click the button and then click the map in the area you wish zoom in
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Zoom out. Click the button and then click the map in the area you wish to zoom out
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Pan. Click the button and then click the map. The spot you clicked becomes the centre
of the map
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Display data on the archaeological sites. To view click the button and then the
map, putting the cursor on the symbol indicating the archaeological site ( ,
 ), the museum ( ) or place of worship ( ). Whenever for the same spot overlap data from
several databases, one must press the radio button in order to indicate which data
resource is queried (for instance: if you wish to query the archaeological spots
in the National Archaeological Directory you must press the radio button corresponding
to the National Archaeological Directory. The "checkbox" buttons serve
to put in/out the display of the archaeological spots in the spatial databases
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Click the button to display all Romania (Zoom to full extent)
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It enables searching for the archaeological sites in Romania. The sites are identified
by the towns and villages of whose territory they are found. Click this button to
display a new search window in which you have to enter the name of the desired town
or village. All the towns and villages with that name or beginning with the indicated
character row will be displayed. Any town and village can be displayed on the map
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Click the button to open a new window with the displayed map enabling saving as
a PNG image that can be printed or used in another document (with copyright cIMeC)
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Layers
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It is possible to set in or out in order to view the map elements: the national
archaeological directory, the chronicle of the archaeological researches, waters,
roads, railways. In order to set in/out to view the archaeological sites in the
National Archaeological Directory or the Chronicle of the archaeological researches,
select the desired database. In order to set in/out the other elements of the map,
mark/unmark the box opposite the map element
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Legend
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Display the legend to explain the map symbols used to represent the map elements
(archaeological sites, waters, localities, roads, altitude intervals, land use (agriculture,
forest, pasture, etc.). The legend changes according to the active elements and
the map scale
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România - Reference map
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The general map of Romania enables the general orientation in space and the quick
shift to the relevant area to detail, search, etc. Click the reference image of
Romania in the relevant area. The map in the right window will shift accordingly,
so that the spot you clicked will become the centre of the map
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The coordinates of the spot you clicked are displayed in the Internet browser bar
(left bottom). If you use the Firefox browser you have to perform the following
changes to view the coordinates of the spot you clicked: go to the menu Tools, Options,
Web features, Advanced and mark "Change status bar text"
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