It sounded to me like he meant software that maps a given website. And
yes, The Brain is supposed to do that, though I could never get mine to
do it properly. It would always lock up. There are other programs to do
the same thing.

Steve Franklin

"Felipe G. Nievinski" wrote:
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> Hi Armindo, hi list.
>
> Greetings from Brazil.
>
> I think it's needed to make clear what you mean by "web mapping software". IMO, there can be three different understandings of it. It can be:
>
> 1) a software running behind a WMS (Web Mapping Server), which accepts requests for maps of a given _geographic_ area and responds generating the desired map and sending it back to the requesting client. This is what Tom Johnson pointed in his reply.
> 2) a software to (autommatically) discover and compute the geographical scope of a given web resource, based on its textual content and links. There is a paper about it indexed and available at www.ResearchIndex.com
> 3) a software to generate a map of a given _Web_ site - a graph of its structure (it's not a geographical map).
> Maybe the Brain software (<http://www.thebrain.com/>) can do it (please correct me if I am wrong).
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> cheers.
>
> Felipe Nievinski.
>
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> On 26/06/98 at 21:46 Armindo José Gonçalves Dias wrote:
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> >Greetings from ~Portugal.
> >
> >I don't know if this is the appropriate site to do this, but i'm currently working in a project for my school were we are analysing web mapping software (the software that automatically generates a map for a site).
> >
> >I would like to know if someone could give me some info (or point me to) about how these programs generate a map, in what language are generally done, etc, some more technical info. Like, do they follow links in the HTML files? Do the follow other tags?
> >
> >Thanks for your time?
> >Armindo Dias