About the Xerox PARC Map Viewer

The Xerox PARC Map Viewer is a World-Wide Web HTTP server that accepts requests for a World or USA map and returns an HTML document including an image of the requested map. Each map image is created on demand from a geographic database.

Selecting on the map image requests a new map zoomed in on the selected point. Links embedded in the HTML document control other map rendering options.

Questions and Comments

Please first read the pages on Frequent Questions and Technical Details. You may send questions and comments about the Map Viewer to webmaster@xerox.com.

Background and References

The Xerox PARC Map Viewer was created in June 1993 by Steve Putz at Xerox Corporation's Palo Alto Research Center, as an experiment in providing interactive information retrieval via the World Wide Web. A paper describing the Map Viewer was presented in May 1994 at the First International World-Wide Web Conference. See:

Interactive Information Services Using World-Wide Web Hypertext