INTERACTIVE WORLD MAP: MAN MADE DISASTERS
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1. 7 3 com esri mo2 ut tb ProjectTool Bar 24 PROJECT LAYER acit pesos iiti S AMI aM Eo DR RE 26 B L OMCSEL MO bean Layers maia ia EM 26 8 2 Converting CSV or Text File to Shape File 27 9 FUTURE ENAANCEMENT nn ie nn nt tint BIBLIOGRAPHY LIST OF TABLES Table 5 1 Importing Classes and Classes Used for Development 15 Table 7 1 Legend of MapObjects Toolbars 23 Figure 4 1 Figure 4 2 Figure 4 3 Figure 4 4 Figure 4 5 Figure 5 1 Figure 5 2 Figure 5 3 Figure 5 4 Figure 6 1 Figure 6 2 Figure 6 3 Figure 6 4 Figure 7 1 Figure 8 1 Figure 8 2 Figure 8 3 Figure 8 4 Figure 8 5 Figure 8 6 Figure 8 7 Figure 8 8 Figure 8 9 1X LIST OF FIGURES PAGE Project development cycle 9 Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters main screen 10 Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters disaster screen 11 Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters picture game screen 12 Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters quiz screen 13 High level architecture diagram 1224 inei ree ice 14 Class diagram for learn more tabs erede a2. Figure 8 3 Adding a reference layer L1 uses ll country 8 D Profiles w35053 Desktop Figure 8 5 Displaying XY data 30 Display X Data Figure 8 6 Identifying the XY data Check that the data added is shown in the map on the right correctly See Figure 8 7 Right click on the sample txt Select Events and select Data gt Export Data See Figure 8 8 Save the file as SHP file Press OK See Figure 8 9 You now have a shape file which can be used with MapObjects com esri mo2 ui bean Layer class 31 amp Untitled ArcMap Arc iew File Edit Insert Selection Tools Window Help D 8 m x x C 27566545 amp Editor k Task create New Feature F7 x Layers 9 D Profiles w350531Deskt sample txt Events sample txt cj A D Profiles w35053 My Dc country Display Source Drawing AY r anal y fio 7 B Z U As aw 7 sy 65 16 39 726 W 101 21 2 473 N Z Figure 8 7 Displaying the XY data Untitled ArcMap Arc iew I x File Edit View Insert Selection Tools Window Help D za 8 amp 22755545 d k Editor w 7 Tas
3. s2 config configFile getProperty s2 addShapefile ToMap layerl s1 Add a shapefile to the map addShapefileToMap layer2 s2 private void addShapefileToMap Layer layer String s String datapath s C ESRI MOJ20 Samples Data US A states shp layer setDataset 0 datapath map add layer The details on the shape files can be found at 10 The shape files which are used by the com esri mo2 ui bean Layer class were created or acquired using the following ways The first way is there are a lot of sources which create the geographic data as shape files and distribute these files for free The shape file showing the states of USA and countries of the world as a world map was procured from the ESRI website 27 8 2 CONVERTING CSV OR TEXT FILE TO SHAPE FILE The second way is to create a CSV or text file with geographic data Figure 8 1 and then use the steps mentioned below to convert it into a shape file Comma Separated Values or CSV files are used as data container files They contain all the information that the project needs to plot the region where the movements took place The CSV files contains the information such as coordinates in the form of latitudes and longitudes the path of the image or the html file or the details of the action that need to be taken when the point is clicked on the map It stores all the description about that active layer Thus all information is fetched in the program and stored in the string v
4. Game Create Quiz Take Quiz Learn More Learn from Internet e Map Objects and Java Classes The functionality and the action of all the above buttons custom toolbar and default GIS toolbars are defined in the java classes created Further discussion about the class diagrams and java classes will be done later e Resources files The default user interface uses the above classes for accessing the different resource files such as shape files images text files and help documentation 5 2 CLASSES AND CLASS DIAGRAM The class diagram helps in streamlining the overall code and its structure it also provides the developer a stencil to use for code development A class diagram shows the set of variable and functions present in the class It also explains the interdependency of classes used for the development Table 5 1 6 shows the base class Disaster and its imported classes Table 5 1 Importing Classes and Classes Used for Development Importing Classes Classes Used for Development import javax swing JButtons JPanel JSplitPane JToolBar Imagelcon JMenuBar JMenultem AbstractTableModel TableColumn import com esri mo2 ui bean Map Layer Toc TocAdapter TocEvent Legend Tool import com esri mo2 ui tb ZoomPanToolBar SelectionToolBar ProjectToolBar import com esri mo2 file shp ShapefileFolder ShapefileWriter import com esri mo2 map dpy Layerset FeatureLayer BaseFeatureLayer Source Deepak Kundra Natural disasters GI
5. and keeping them mentally engaged in the subject Teaching students in the current culture is more difficult since that culture is now rooted in the web and they are used to multimedia interfaces Making lessons more interactive and animated can help teachers motivate and interest today s internet addicted students The initiative behind the development of this tool is to develop a software program which provides high school teachers an easy and interactive way to represent Man Made Disasters of the last century It can be used for describing data in a graphical fashion on a map by linking the data to various geographical features This tool hopefully will motivate students to learn information about the Man Made Disasters It includes data in the form of text pictures and links to various related web information It also incorporates games to provide students an opportunity to exercise what they have learned in a fun way For self analysis there are some practice quizzes and it also has the capability to create new practice graded quizzes The tool is easy to deploy easy to use and can be configured manually by making changes to a configuration file By utilizing modern computer technology to present an important subject in an engaging and interesting fashion this work could become an effective learning tool in the modern classroom not just for students but also the instructors TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE ABSTRACT inerte an
6. com esri mo2 ui tb ProjecToolBar Source Deepak Kundra Natural disasters GIS teaching aid Master s thesis San Diego State University San Diego CA 2008 a a a a Sas 5 3 0 PAIN l Project Tool Bar Zoom Pan Tool Bar Selection Tool Bar Figure 7 1 MapObjects toolbars 7 1 COM ESRI MO2 ULTB ZOOMPANTOOLBAR The ZoomPanToolBar uses functions provided by ZoomPanToolBarActions class It allows an end user to change the map extent in a variety of ways As the name suggest it is used for zooming and panning a layer The actions supported by the Toolbar include e Zoom In and Zoom Out Zoom In tool zooms the map down to certain level Also Zoom out tool is used to zoom the map out to larger size ZoomToFull Extent When clicked on this tool returns the map to the original shape and full view It doesn t care about the size of the window it resizes the map and shows a complete view of the map 24 Pan Provides a tool for dragging the map to a new location without altering the zoom level PanOneDirection Pans the map in one of four directions north south east or west Identify Performs an Identify on the specified selected layers setMap function must be called before using any of these actions The code to integrate the toolbar with the GIS tool is static com esri mo2 ui bean Map map new com esri mo2 ui bean Map ZoomPanToolBar zptb new ZoomPanToolBar zptb setMap ma
7. http www webdotdev com nvd content view 1042 204 accessed Jan 2012 Environmental Systems Research Institute Map Objects Java Edition 2004 http www esri com software mapobjects accessed Sept 2011 Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI Building Applications with Map Objects 1996 http forums arcgis com accessed Sept 2011 Wikipedia Software Development Process 2012 http en wikipedia org wiki Software development process accessed Jan 2012 Deepak Kundra Natural disasters GIS teaching aid Master s thesis San Diego State University San Diego CA 2008 Oracle Java SE Downloads 2011 http java sun com javase downloads accessed May 2011 NetBeans NetBeans IDE 6 0 1 Download 2011 http dlc sun com netbeans 6 0 final accessed May 2011 Carl Eckberg CS 537 Component GIS Architecture Class Notes on MapObjects Java Edition San Diego State University CA 2010 Environmental Systems Research Institute ESRI Shapefile Technical Description ESRI White Paper 1998 http www esri com library whitepapers pdfs shapefile pdf accessed Jan 2012 D Falkman Map Objects Java Edition 2004 http www thaigis com Support document mo_java_bro pdf accessed May 2011
8. student will get feedback with every answer clicked and for a graded quiz the faculty has to enter an email address where all the answers are sent after completion of the quiz The student won t get any feedback in graded quiz 19 CHAPTER 6 INSTALLATIONS The project was developed in java and edited and compiled in NetBeans IDE Integrated Development Environment NetBeans works really well with MapObjects when appropriate libraries are added The following installations were done to build and run the project 1 Install Java SE Development kit 1 6 from sun java website 7 2 Install NetBeans IDE 1 0 6 from their website 8 3 The Installation of MapObjects Java Edition was obtained from Dr Carl Eckberg in one of his classes on GIS 4 Integrating MapObjects and NetBeans the libraries need to be added to NetBeans Here are the steps to go to the Library Manager Figure 6 1 in NetBeans from where we find an option to add MapObjects libraries to the NetBeans IDE E Library Manager Libraries location Global Libraries Libraries Class Libraries Library Name Absolute Layout i Absolute Layout pemn Classpath Sources Javadoc S8 Beans Binding 1 CopyLibs Task Library Classpath Hibernate C Program Files NetBeans 6 7 11java2YmodulesYextYAb4 Add JAR Folder ES Hibernate JPA 5 Java Tree API Remove Eb JAx wS2 1 ES JAXB2 1 i JUnit 3 8 2 b Junit 4 5 e 19 5 Ant Ta
9. INTERACTIVE WORLD MAP MAN MADE DISASTERS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty of San Diego State University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Science in Computer Science by Achal Piyushbhai Shah Summer 2012 SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY The Undersigned Faculty Committee Approves the Thesis of Achal Piyushbhai Shah Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters Joseph Lewis Chair Department of Computer Science Carl Eckberg Department of Computer Science 7 Gary Department of Geological Sciences 0 24 zen Approval Date Copyright 2012 by Achal Piyushbhai Shah All Rights Reserved iii iv DEDICATION I thank my parents family and faculty of CS Department at SDSU for their faith in me and allowing me to be as ambitious as I wanted It was under their watchful eyes that I gained so much drive and an ability to tackle challenges head on I dedicate my work to my father Mr Piyush Shah my mother Mrs Pratixa Shah my brother Tapan Shah and all my friends without their endless support it would have been a difficult task to achieve ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters by Achal Piyushbhai Shah Master of Science in Computer Science San Diego State University 2012 With the changing culture one of the biggest challenges faced by school teachers is keeping students interested in reading books
10. IVE WORLD MAP MAN MADE DISASTERS Quiz Title Question 1 type your question below Quiz type practice graded Option Feedback A Option B Teedback B Option C Feedback C Option D Feedback D Option E Feedback E Add question Add picture Addink View Source Code Quiz Page Save Edit Load Quiz Data Reload to start over Please send question or comments to Achal Shah Figure 4 5 Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters quiz screen 14 CHAPTER 5 THE DESIGN After collecting the requirements for the project the following design was proposed The tool has been names as Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters The design created includes the High Level Architecture diagram and the Class diagram 5 1 HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE DIAGRAM Figure 5 1 depicts the high level architecture diagram for the Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters tool The figure depicts the high level structure of the system Figure 5 1 High level architecture diagram The architecture is broadly divided into three different levels e User Interface This is the default map screen that will be displayed to the user when the application is launched and the user has selected a disaster The default map screen shall have Menu options to display and clear disaster names add user facility Help Window Option to change the disaster Map Object and custom toolbars and a 15 menu with buttons to launch the Picture
11. Layer acetLayerl 138 static com esri mo2 map dpy Layer layer 139 static com esri mo2 map dpy Layer activeLayer 140 int activeLayerIndex 141 boolean lighteningOn false 142 143 Toc toc new Toc 144 JMenuBar mbar new JMenuBar 145 JMenu file new JMenu File 146 JMenu edit new JMenu Display 147 dMenu insert new JMenu Insert 148 JMenu view new JMenu Options 149 JMenu theme new JMenu Theme Output ManMadeDisasters run Figure 6 3 NetBeans development environment C WINDOWS system32 cmd exe Microsoft Windows Version 5 1 26081 Copyright 1985 2661 Microsoft Corp P N gt c C djava jar C ManMadeDisasters ManMadeDisasters jar 22 Figure 6 4 Command prompt showing jar file execution 23 CHAPTER 7 MAPOBJECTS TOOLBARS MapObjects Java Edition provides multiple beans which can be used to add basic capabilities to the tool Toolbars are one of these beans which can provide commonly used functions such as zoom in zoom out easily This chapter discusses how these toolbars Table 7 1 6 have been integrated into the GIS tool We have used code to show how this can be achieved The Toolbar is shown in Figure 7 1 Table 7 1 Legend of MapObjects Toolbars Number Toolbar Name Class Name 1 Zoom Pan Tool Bar com esri mo2 ui tb ZoomPanToolBar 2 Selection Tool Bar com esri mo2 ui tb SelectionToolBar 3 Project Tool Bar
12. S teaching aid Master s thesis San Diego State University San Diego CA 2008 The classes shown in Table 5 1 have been used for completing the basic functionality provided by MapObjects in the Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters project After initializing the tool parameter using config file shape files and image files the Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters tool is launched and the above classes enable the basic GIS tool functionality There are other functionalities which are triggered using the buttons present on the Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters tool These buttons basically give the simplest 16 way to interact with the tool and learn about the various Man Made Disasters Figure 5 2 highlights the buttons and the class invoked by the buttons Let s discuss it in detail Implements PickListener Sets URL and Launch URL in browser Button Listener Figure 5 2 Class diagram for learn more tabs The Learn More Button creates an object of class Hotlink which implements the PickListener Interface of MapObjects A Pick operation occurs when a Tool such as Pick or Identify is selected In this case it occurs after the Learn More button is clicked and the end user clicks in the Map An initial beginPick will be signaled followed by zero or more foundData with a final endPick to signal the completion of the Pick operation After creating the object when the user clicks on a disaster a custom dial
13. ariables and accordingly actions are taken The information stored in the CSV file is displayed in the web browser Hence CSV files have been used in this project for the same It can be saved either with csv or txt extension 11 9 Sample txt Notepad Kole File Edit Format View Help Longitude Latitude Name of Disaster Link to Summary of Disaster 18 24 43 51 Assasination of Franz Ferdinand C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Assasination of Franz Ferdinand txt 3 195 49 35 Battle of Cambrai C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Cambrai txt 13 34 46 14 Battle of Caporetto C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Caporetto txt 1 012 49 05 Battle of Flers Courcelette C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Flers Courcelette txt 2 24 48 48 Battle of Jutland C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Jutland txt 19 06 51 56 Battle of Marne C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Marne txt 4 969 49 87 Battle of Masurian Lakes C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Masurian Lakes txt 3 46 50 46 Battle of Mons C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Mons txt 0 92 49 83 Battle of Passchendaele C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Passchendaele txt 20 08 53 29 Battle of Somme C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Somme txt 11 6 48 13 Battle of Tannenberg C ManMadeDisasters Thes
14. ate the students The data shall be depicted with the least amount of details first and then it shall be easy to view more details CHAPTER 4 PROTOTYPING Prototyping the development cycle of your project helps in reducing the risk during implementation of the software tool A prototype is an original type form or instance of something serving as a typical example basis or standard for other things of the same category A prototype is often used as part of the product design process to allow engineers and designers the ability to explore design alternatives test theories and confirm performance prior to starting production of a new product The project cycle include 5 important phases as shown in Figure 4 1 which are discussed in brief below 5 DEFINE REFINE DESIGN EVALUATE DEPLOY Figure 4 1 Project development cycle Definition The important task in creating a software product is extracting the requirements or requirements analysis A clear definition of requirements is essential in designing the tool We already discussed the requirement gatherings in an earlier section The final output of this phase is that you will have a problem set defined to work on in this case it was an Interactive Map for Man Made Disasters Design This steps involves coming up with the architecture of the project based on the specification provided the functionalities and the GUI which the user expects will help in designing the
15. d ibo 16 Class diagram gaming tabs sent ane St ed erra tirs 17 Class diagram for quiz tabs 18 Library Tad Per ticks red usta Neat efecto ate un 19 Adding MOJO libraries to NetBeans d 20 NetBeans development environment e CES 21 Command prompt showing jar file execution 22 MapObjects toolbars 23 a 27 28 Adding a reference layer 28 Adding text file as data source p diee oer I 29 XY data edited d ttes 29 Identtymeg the X bdo ca NEP de tod 30 Displaying the XY data ence ten 3l Exporting the XY data suspe deni aine etn certat 3l Saying the exported X Y tecum fanus 32 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I want to express my gratitude to my advisor Dr Joseph Lewis for giving me an opportunity to work on this thesis project and for his constant guidance support and motivation throughout this project I am grateful to Dr Carl Eckberg and Dr Gary Girty for being a part of my thesis committee and for their kind co operation and guidance Finally I would als
16. diting our program in the NetBeans IDE As we have already installed all the required libraries the application should easily be complied and run without any errors Figure 6 3 shows the NetBeans IDE Follow the following steps to install the executable JAR file to any computer Make a directory called ManMadeDisasters and copy the executable JAR file along with the lib folder in the same directory e Copy the MOJ20 folder in the C e Run the following command on command prompt to run the executable see Figure 6 4 java ManMadeDisasters jar or java path where the folder is ManMadeDisasters jar 21 NetBeans IDE 7 0 1 6 le Edit View Navigate Source Refactor Run Debug Profile Team Tools Window Help 9E EE inane ce Sale Sem 116 class Disaster extends JFrame implements ActionListener 117 int f1ag10 0 118 int disp 0 119 int label 0 120 int cname 0 121 int bool 0 122 int col 0 123 int flag50 0 124 int flagi00 0 125 String FileName 126 Color map color new Color 255 255 255 127 Color toc color new Color 205 205 193 128 Boolean flag2 false 129 static Map map new Map 130 boolean helpOn false 131 static boolean fullMap true 132 Layer layer new Layer 133 Layer layer2 new Layer 134 Layer layer5 new Layer 135 Layer layer3 null 136 static AcetateLayer acetLayer 137 static Acetate
17. ic Information System GIS Applications 3 MapObjects Java Objects MOJO is not an end user application it s a developer s tool kit It includes a set of JAR files containing pure Java components that can be used to develop a usable stand alone GIS application or to add maps or map functionality to other applications Since it is written in Java applications using MOJO can be cross platform Java classes and components are easily integrated with classes supplied by ESRI in MOJO 4 Dr Carl Eckberg also teaches a class at San Diego State University which covers MapObjects in depth and has published a comprehensive guide on MapObjects For implementation of the Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters I have used MapObjects Java Edition version 2 1 Key features as cited from the MapObjects Java Edition brochure includes 3 4 e Display of real time geographic data e Ability to combine multiple data sources e Helpful Tools for Building a User Interface By using the rich Swing components included with MapObjects Java Edition you can quickly build applications that include functional toolbars dynamic symbol control query dialogs overview and insert maps and intelligent legends that make your custom applications easy to use and even easier to develop e Major GIS capabilities such as labeling map features specifying projection displaying thematic map layers performing geometric processing zooming and panning map layers mea
18. is WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Tannenberg txt 48 50 22 Battle of Vimy Ridge C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Vimy Ridge txt 991 51 018 Battle of Ypres C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle of Ypres txt 23 49 09 Battle ot Verdum C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Battle ot Verdum txt 6 4 40 24 Gallipoli C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Gallipoli txt 596 47 7 Treaty of Versailles C ManMadeDisasters Thesis WorldWarl WorldWarl Treaty of Versailles txt 5 3 Figure 8 1 Example of sample txt Install ArcGIS 9 Contact Geography Department at SDSU for the installation CD e Create a text file or CSV file with the data needed Longitude Latitude Name of Disaster Link to Summary of Disaster Sample in Figure 8 1 e Save the file as sample txt or sample csv e Goto the ArcGIS installation directory and launch ArcMap Click Start with a new map See Figure 8 2 e Press the add button and select states shp file for reference view Press Add See Figure 8 3 e Press the add button again and select sample txt file Press Add See Figure 8 4 e Right click on sample txt and select Display XY Data See Figure 8 5 e Make sure the X Y have been correctly identified Press OK See Figure 8 6 28 L Browse for maps Figure 8 2 Starting ArcMap 7 Layers zx world30 shp AMA
19. k create New Feature 2 Layers B D profiles w35053 Deskt Q BB x Remove sample E 3 D Profiles Open Attribute Table countr Joins and Relates lt amp Zoom To Layer zoom Make Visible Visible Scale Range Use Symbol Levels Selection Label Features Convert Labels to Annotation lt Convert Features to Graphics Convert symbology to Representation Save As Layer File Export Data 4 Display Source Sel pa Properties A v r View Metadata r V Review Rematch Addresses Save this layer s data as a shapefile or geodatabase feature class Repair Data source Make Permanent 193 7 28 153 w 31 28 6 003 N Figure 8 8 Exporting the XY data 32 Export Data f the feature datas 20 ata into Only applie tto ali dataset in qeodatabase D Profiles w35053 Desktop Shp 5 ample sample shp E Figure 8 9 Saving the exported XY data 33 9 FUTURE ENHANCEMENT This project has a huge scope But it was impossible to cover everything in the first version of the software This project has a huge degree for further development This chapter focuses on these ideas for future development of the project The framework is designed in such a way that it can be expanded to support more feat
20. le CloseProject Close current map project 25 SaveMapImageToFile Save current to an image file e PrintLayer Print selected layer s in the TOC The setMap function must be called before using any of these actions The code to integrate the toolbar with the GIS tool is static com esri mo2 ui bean Map map new com esri mo2 ui bean Map ProjectToolBar ptb new ProjectToolBar ptb setMap map getContentPane add ptb BorderLayout NORTH 26 CHAPTER 8 PROJECT LAYER In GIS a layer is a slice of the geographic data in a certain area and it is equivalent to a legend item on a paper map The features layers that are shown in the tool are implemented using com esri mo2 map dpy BaseFeatureLayer class and com esri mo2 ui bean Layer class 8 1 COM ESRIL MO2 UI BEAN LAYER The com esri mo2 ui bean Layer class from MapObjects Java Edition is used in the default screen when the tool is launched to show the geographic data This class uses a shape file as the data source for showing the features and calls a method to add layers to the map The following code 9 shows how to use this class static com esri mo2 ui bean Map map new com esri mo2 ui bean Map Layer layer new Layer Layer layer2 new Layer String s1 s2 Properties configFile new Properties configFile load new FileInputStream config properties config configFile getProperty config sl config configFile getProperty s1
21. mpilers are able t o detect many problems that would first show up during execution time in other languages e Simple Java was designed to be easy to use and is therefore easy to write compile debug and learn Java is much simpler than other object oriented languages because Java uses automatic memory allocation and garbage collection where else other languages like C require the programmer to allocate memory and to collect garbage 2 e Multithreaded Multithreaded is the capability for a program to perform several tasks simultaneously within a program In Java multithreaded programming has been smoothly integrated into it while in other languages operating system specific procedures have to be called in order to enable multithreading Multithreading is a necessity in visual and network programming 2 e To give any software component a long life it has to be developed with reusability and extensibility in mind From above it is clear that Java enables you to do Just that the individual classes can be extended and reused to add more features and provide the capability to identify and fix bugs fast Because of Java s robustness ease of use cross platform capabilities security features it has been chosen as the language of choice for this thesis project 2 2 MAPOBJECTS JAVA EDITION MapObjects Java Edition is a powerful collection of client and server side components that the developers can use to build custom cross platform Geograph
22. n nt TABLES avy cies sang aa wee a LIST OF FIGURES P ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS oneone ti pite a Me a x CHAPTER INTRODUCTION ea ah 1 2 TECHNOLOGY 3 PXBE CCP 3 22 MapObjects Java Edith oe u aged 4 2 Development Platform u s ronie AA d S S 5 3 THE REQUIREMENTS nn naa naqi ERROR Sec edd eve 6 3 1 Software Platform Requirements ioco sete eere rete deep eo ete Lo e 6 3 2 Data R quirements usine andere 6 3 3 Funcional Requirements radere 7 3 4 Student Centric Requirements At en 8 4 PROTOTYPING a ann an MO Gad ieee ees 9 THE DESIGN aaa 14 5 1 High Level Architecture Diagram 14 5 2 Classes and Glass Diagramme 15 6 INSTALLATIONS ic 19 7 MAPOBJECTS TOOLBARS 4 aces esit e nei eeiam a ERR DINE RU B se ads 23 7 1 com esri mo2 ui tb ZoomPanToolBar 23 7 2 comiesri mo2 ui tb SelectionToolBat e ied deus 24
23. ned the functionality in brief Chapters seven shows us the various tools provided by MapObjects It dives more into the coding of these tools and explains step by step how it works Chapter eight is all about the map layers we are using in the Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters tool it shows the step by step creation of a sample layer so in future if the tool needs to be extended it would be easy to create new layers with more data in it The last chapter covers the future enhancement of the Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters tool CHAPTER 2 TECHNOLOGY This chapter discusses the technologies used in the creation of this tool As suggested by Dr Joseph Lewis and Dr Carl Eckberg MapObjects Java Edition and Java will be best suited to implement the Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters Java is a platform independent programming language and MapObjects gels well with Java The next section will discuss these technologies in detail 2 1 JAVA Platform Independence Java has the advantage of being platform independent i e it can be moved from one computer system to another 2 e Object Oriented Java is object oriented because programming in Java is centered on creating objects manipulating objects and making them work together This allows the user to create modular programs and re useable code e Robust Robust means reliable Java puts a lot of emphasis on early checking for possible errors as Java co
24. o take them The quiz will be helpful to measure a student s knowledge regarding a disaster The quiz should be interactive so that it gives a Correct Incorrect verdict The teacher has the option to create a graded or practice quiz in the form of multiple choice questions The tool should be capable of labeling the disaster sites also user should be able to clear the labels 3 4 STUDENT CENTRIC REQUIREMENTS The student centric requirements are developed to represent how the data shall be seen by the user of the tool These requirements were gathered keeping in mind the high school students The requirement gathering was done under Prof Richard Sutton from Helix High School The Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters should be easy to use handle and configure Since the intended audience for this tool is high school students who don t have much experience using a tool similar to this this tool should be easy to learn Providing tool tip text will enable a student to learn this tool faster The language used to describe the summary and other facts of each disaster should be simple and easy so that high school students can understand it Usage of images and games will attract the attention of the student and he will be encouraged to learn more about Man Made Disasters The text used to represent the information should be neat bold and clear The tool shall represent the data in a format that does not overwhelm and intim
25. o like to express my sincere thanks to Mr Richard Sutton from Helix High school for trusting me with this project and providing his kind support guidance and co operation throughout the project CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Today with all the wonderful advances in technology and the use of internet it is extremely difficult for a teacher to keep the interest of a student in information just from books It is therefore imperative that a teacher uses various visual aids to educate their students while keeping the student interested in the subject matter The Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters was designed and implemented for the students of Helix High School to aid them in their history class The intention of this tool is to help students understand the major Man Made Disasters of the last century in the world The motivation of getting involved in this project was to help the student in a better understanding of their school material and to expose them to some fun with electronic media learning through pictures quizzes and games The Man Made Disasters tool is an easy to deploy and fully configurable tool which provides high school teachers with an easy and interactive way to represent data related to Man Made Disasters Students can interact with the tool to explore the different Man Made Disasters of the last century and learn more about them Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters tool has been designed to easily navigate and acces
26. og pops up and shows the user detailed description of the disaster including pictures The Learn More from Internet button creates an object of class Hyperlink and it also implements the PickListener interface of MapObjects After creating the object by clicking on the button when the user clicks on one of the disaster the foundData method looks inside the dbf file of the active layer and sets the string url value corresponding to the disaster We 17 then use the following piece of code in java to launch the external URL using the default browser Runtime getRuntime exec rundl132 url dll FileProtocolHandler url Figure 5 3 shows the block diagram of the game buttons in the tool Button Listener Te m i Implements PickListenen 1 I Dispose Figure 5 3 Class diagram for gaming tabs The Play and Learn button when it is clicked the button listener creates an object of class PlayNLearn which again implements the PickListener interface from MapObjects When the button is clicked it also invokes a dialog box asking the user a question about the disaster The user then has to respond to the question by selecting one of the options provided followed by selecting the country where the disaster took place If the user is right we verify the answer using the PickListener method and provide a feedback in the form of a dialog box After clicking on The Picture Game button a dialog box p
27. ops up with an image of one the disasters that the student has learned from the list of disasters and shows three options on the screen One of the random images is selected from the Images folder and it s drawn on 18 the panel of the dialog window using the DrawImage Class If the user selects the right answer a feedback is provided in the form of a dialog box displayed on the screen Figure 5 4 shows the block diagram for Quiz Buttons Button Listener etree Quiz is launched based on the Disaster selected Quiz Selection menu I I I I Button Listener Figure 5 4 Class diagram for quiz tabs When the Take A Quiz button is clicked by the user a Quiz selection menu pops up Once a quiz is selected related to a disaster a HTML Page is displayed which contains the quiz for the disaster selected The name of the HTML page is set in the configuration file which can be changed if a new quiz is created using the Create Quiz button discussed below The Create Quiz button is meant for faculty to design new quizzes for students When this button is clicked it launches a HTML page based on JavaScript which is then used to create a new quiz For each question faculty can add images hyper link multiple choice and feedback for every answer clicked There is the capability of making it a practice quiz or graded quiz For a practice quiz the
28. orld Map for Man Made Disasters with one of the disasters chosen which includes the labeled disaster and the country with a menu bar showing various option Figure 4 4 shows a screen shot of a picture game which asks the user to identify the picture of one of the disasters The user has to select one out of three answers and if the 11 192125 519 5 5 IPEN ter PHOM 9ADDU HJUI B salo 12 Identify VVhich Disaster is this Message Good Job You got the Right answer Sept 11 Attacks Hiroshima Nagasaki Bombing Figure 4 4 Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters picture game screen answer is correct it then gives feedback but if the selection is wrong it asks the user to try again Finally I would like to show the practice quiz prototype It is a self evaluation exercise which can also be configured as a graded quiz while creating the quiz It is interactive in the sense that it returns feedback to the user so that the user will evaluate if there is something wrong with their selection of an answer They can go back to the Man Made Disasters Learn More option to learn more about the correct information in detail Figure 4 5 shows the screen to create quiz and a sample quiz screen 13 INTERACT
29. outer layer of the project It also includes the implementation and testing of software code which is ready for deployment This is discussed in detail in chapter five Development The development cycle consists of successful prototypes where the actual testing is done from the user perspective The feedback and suggestion is taken 10 from the user after each prototype and the design redefined to accomplish the end result This process goes on until the project is ready to deliver I found this process very helpful to keep track of the requirements and implementation of the project e Deployment The actual deployment starts after the code is appropriately tested and all other aspects of the project including documentation has been taken care of We have created User Manual for the software During the development of the Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters tool a prototype was developed Screen shots of the prototype follow The screen in Figure 4 2 is of the main screen which is launched when the tool is started Selection Menu Joe MAN MADE DISASTERS SELECTION MENU CO World War 1 C Bhopal Gas Tragedy O World War 2 Chernobyl Disaster Hiroshima Nagasaki Bombings Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Cold War Sept 11 Attacks C Tenerife Airport Disaster Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Figure 4 2 Interactive World Map Man Made Disasters main screen Figure 4 3 is the configured screen of Interactive W
30. p getContentPane add zptb BorderLayout NORTH 7 2 COM ESRI MO2 UI TB SELECTIONTOOLBAR This toolbar provides functions that perform feature selection based upon attribute or spatial queries The actions supported by this Toolbar include Find Opens a dialog for locating features whose attributes contain an end user provided string Search Opens a dialog for locating features based a predefined stored query Query Opens a dialog for locating features based on a query that an end user constructs Select Provides a tool for selecting features by rubber banding a shape in the map Buffer Opens a dialog for constructing a buffer polygon around the currently selected features Attributes Displays attributes of the currently selected features setMap function must be called before using any of these actions For GIS tool we are only using the Find function The code to integrate the toolbar with the GIS tool is static com esri mo2 ui bean Map map new com esri mo2 ui bean Map SelectionToolBar stb 2 new SelectionToolBar stb setMap map getContentPane add stb BorderLayout NORTH 7 3 COM ESRI MO2 UI TB PROJECTTOOLBAR This toolbar provides actions that allow an end user to open close save a map project and print a map image to file the actions supported by this Toolbar include 9 OpenProject Open a previously saved project file SaveProject Save the current map project to a fi
31. pics Name s of the disaster A description of the disaster When did the disaster take place E g start and end date sometimes with the time of the day Where did the disaster take place Causes of the disaster Main Events taking place during the disaster Casualties due to the disaster Consequences of the disaster Images of the disaster 3 3 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS The functional requirements cover the functional details of the tool and specify what shall be provided in the tool the behavior of the tool to different actions and other GUI requirements These requirements were gathered from Prof Richard Sutton and Dr Joseph Lewis The tool shall display the world map with the selected disaster on it when it first starts The tool shall be able to zoom in and zoom out and should be capable of adding new layers during runtime e g rivers cities etc Hot Links This feature displays a webpage which contains the summary of the disaster by clicking on the Disaster point on the world map Hyperlink This tool should allow the user to go to external links over the internet to learn more about the disaster This tool should have a game which requires the user to click the country corresponding to the disaster This will help the user to test his knowledge about the data that he has seen A picture game to learn about the disasters Quiz There will be an option for the teacher to create quizzes and for the students t
32. rn more about the various Man Made Disasters occurring in the last century This tool has been developed under the guidance and requirements given by Dr Joseph Lewis of San Diego State University and Prof Richard Sutton from the history department at Helix High School The requirements gathered have been classified into the following e Software Platform Requirements e Data Requirements e Functional Requirements e Student Centric Requirements 3 1 SOFTWARE PLATFORM REQUIREMENTS The Software Platform Requirements constitutes the development language to be used the GIS Solution that needs to be employed and the Operating System to be used for the development of the tool These requirements were gathered from Dr Joseph Lewis The GIS tool shall be developed using e Java e Map Objects Java Edition e Windows XP This tools need to be platform independent But I used Windows XP to develop and test it The rationale behind using these technologies has been discussed in depth in Chapter 2 3 2 DATA REQUIREMENTS The Data Requirements for the Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters were collected from Prof Richard Sutton from Helix High School The Data Requirements specified what data should be provided in the tool How this data is provided is covered under the functional and student centric requirements Prof Sutton helped me in selecting 10 major Man Made Disasters of the last century Each Disaster will cover the following to
33. s information It exhibits information in bold text and pictures to capture student s attention and motivate them to explore further The tool also incorporates an interactive quiz to provide the student an opportunity to analyze what they have learned The tool is flexible and can be modified easily by tutors It is a graphic interface tool to help students understand and learn about the Man Made Disasters in a fun but effective way ESRI has the most prominent presence in the industry in the field of Geographic Information System GIS The release of MapObjects Java Standard Edition allows developer to build custom map applications using the open standard Java Programming language So the Interactive World Map for Man Made Disasters GIS tool has been developed using Java and MapObjects as a software platform MapObjects is a suite of Java based developer components for creating client or server side mapping and GIS applications 1 Also NetBeans is used as a Java IDE in which we can compile and run Java programs This thesis has been organized into nine chapters the first two chapters concentrate on explaining the Introduction and the technologies I have used for developing the tool Chapters three and four are about collecting the requirement from Helix High School and about the prototyping that is used to achieve the final result In chapters five and six I have described the class diagram of the tool how the tool is implemented and then explai
34. sks MySQL JDBC Driver S Persistence SB PostgreSQL JDBC Driver 9 Spring Framework 2 5 i Swing Application Framework Swing Layout Extensions lt Figure 6 1 Library manager 20 Open NetBeans IDE Go to Tools Select Libraries Library Manager Here we can add MOJO23 libraries as follows Figure 6 2 1 Select Add JAR Folder option in Library Manager Window 2 Browse to the location where you have all the MOJO libraries 3 Select all the libraries and add them This will add all the MOJO libraries to NetBeans IDE that are required to integrate MapObjects into NetBeans which is mandatory for my project to compile and run Browse JAR Folder Look in B a jai_core Lai esri_mo20_1 jcert My Recent mo2 0cad jnet Documents esri mo20cad 1 2 jpe90_sdk esri mo2Dimg jsde90_sdk esri_mo20img_1 jsde90_sdkres Desktop esri mo2 0res a jsse Lai mo20res 1 4 mlibwrapper_jai p ai esri_mo20res_1_1 Lay 2 Documents mo2 rpf 1 ai esri_mo20vpf r2 mo20vpf 1 m esri_xmlkit My Computer ai esri xmlkit 1 Lai jai_codec T File name Add J4R Folder My Network Places Files of type Classpath Entry Folder ZIP or JAR File Figure 6 2 Adding MOJO libraries to NetBeans At this point we can start e
35. suring distances querying spatial data and creating layouts etc e Ability to Deploy Your Applications over the Web You can easily distribute MapObjects Java Edition applications over an Internet or Intranet through browser hosted applets or simplify Web delivery of your application with the use of Sun Java Web Start technology the industry standard launching mechanism for distributing Java applications over the Web e Access to ESRI s ArcIMS web services as well as building map application for distribution over the Internet through simple applets or JSP and servlets In addition to the major feature listed above MOJO includes many helpful tools in the development kit Using swing components of MOJO you can build Table of Contents helpful toolbars map overview and map legends 2 2 DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM In this section I would like to go over the various software applications used in the development of this tool e Map Objects Java Edition 2 1 Map Objects comes in two editions Windows and Java Here as per our requirement I have used Map Objects Java Edition e Java SE Development Kit 1 6 This is intended for standard programming applications e NetBeans IDE 6 9 It is an IDE for writing compiling and running Java programs e JavaScript and HTML Used for creating the quizzes It returns Correct Incorrect verdict CHAPTER 3 THE REQUIREMENTS This tool has been developed to encourage high school students to lea
36. ures and use cases As we have used object oriented JAVA as the programming language it s easy to write code for adding extra features in the tool Some of the future enhancements proposed are Only a few Man Made Disasters have been included in this tool It can be extended to add a lot more e Videos related to the disasters can be included to make it more interactive and entertaining e The scope of the project as of now is to deploy it on the student computers for them to learn about the Man Made Disasters in more detail But in future it can be used as a Web Based application where a student can access this application through the internet at his own convenience without having to install this application on his or her computer We can a add time for solving the quizzes and allotting the points based on how quick the question is solved e More interactive games and puzzles can be added to make learning more enjoyable and animated e Currently we only have Wikipedia links to each disaster We can add more data information to the project This includes links to different web pages on the internet providing more information on a disaster to the student 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 34 BIBLIOGRAPHY Environmental Systems Research Institute MapObjects Java Edition 2 0 1 Programmer s Reference Help ESRI California 2004 WebDotDev Java Advantages and Disadvantages 2007
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