Map Viewer (Third Edition)
by Howie Sternberg at howies@snet.net
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Map Viewer is placed in the public domain and is "Freeware". Map Viewer may be freely used and redistributed, is provided "AS-IS" without warranty of any kind, and there is no technical support provided.

To get started, open 'index.asp' in a browser and go to the Help > About menu.

Or, open 'about.htm' to read about Map Viewer before installing Map Viewer on your server.

Map Viewer requires either ArcIMS 4.01, ArcIMS 9.0 or ArcIMS 9.1 with the ActiveX Connector installed, which means you can only use Map Viewer with ArcIMS installed on a PC-Intel-Windows platform such as Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP Professional (for development purposes). Linux and Unix are not supported because ArcIMS’s ActiveX connector will not install on these operating systems. Be sure to choose to install the ActiveX connector when installing ArcIMS. By default, the ActiveX connector isn't installed; you need to choose to install it by checking it on during the ArcIMS installation process. Map Viewer was developed and tested in the following ArcIMS Server environments:

Windows XP Pro, ArcIMS 4.0.1, ActiveX Connector, ServletExec 4.1.1, Java SDK 1.4.0.
Windows XP Pro, ArcIMS 9.0, ActiveX Connector, ServletExec 5.0, Java SDK 1.4.2

If possible, use Image map services rather than ArcMap Image services for best results with Map Viewer. It is eaiser to configure Map Viewer's mapviewer.xml file using Image Map services because the ArcIMS layer ids you need to specify in the mapviewer.xml file are established by you in the map service config file. These layer ids are under your control. On the other hand, it is a little trickier when using ArcMap Image services because ArcIMS assigns numeric-like layer ids based on the order layers are listed in the ArcMap document, beginning with layer id "1" for the last layer to draw, which is at the top of list of layers in ArcMap. Also, with ArcMap Image services, the ability to control whether a layer is included in a legend is not supported so Map Viewer's Layers function isn't fully functional with ArcMap Image services.