Web Access to Non-spatial Data using Internet Map Servers

Current web interfaces to non-Geographic data are primarily text (html) and GIF/JPEG-based. GIS are increasingly being used for spatial analysis of non-Geographic data, for example genome maps, document retrieval, and citation analysis. I discuss web- based, visual, interactive access to non-spatial data, using an internet map server. I will explain how, as an example, online visual browsing and search of lexical data may be achieved, and demonstrate some results of spatial analysis.