ALOV Map/TMJava is free, portable Java^® application for publication vector and raster maps to Internet and interactive viewing on web browsers. It supports the complex rendering architecture, the unlimited navigation and allows working with multiple layers, thematic maps, hyperlinked features and attribute data.

ALOV Map/TMJava is a joint project of ALOV Software and the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney, Australia. ALOV Map was started in November 2001 as an offshoot from work on the Windows version of TimeMap® software(commenced 1999).

TMJava is an updated version of ALOV Map. TMJava provides many new features including temporal filtering, advanced layer control, rendering of TimeMap MapSpaces, and access to a central index of datasets developed for the Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative www.ecai.org.

The latest version of TMJava as well as comprehensive documentation may be downloaded from the TimeMap web site www.timemap.net.

There are two approaches for web mapping with ALOV Map/TMJava - standalone and client/server.

Standalone version is the easiest way to publish your GIS data to Internet. There is no special system or programming experience required to setup your Web GIS. No dedicated server side is needed. If you have ArcView shapefiles or MapInfo MIF files, view them with through ALOV Map. Download ALOV Map and start your own Web Mapping! Please refer to Quick Start for details.

Each time applet starts, it will download all the map files from the WWW server side to the client side. You should limit the size of your map data in order that a downloading's time won't be too long. To reduce it you may compress your data with zip.

The first two examples are working in standalone mode. The applet size is 204KB. The complete size of vector data and raster images are given below links.

Client/server version is more flexible and allows the incremental downloading of data. The server spreads vector maps to client in the most efficient way and uses advanced caching to reduce network traffic. The map features are stored on a SQL database according OpenGIS^® SFS. MrSID image server and any OpenGIS World Map Service can be used as raster maps source. The server side based on Java^® servlets and can be integrated with any web server.

The last three examples are working in client/server mode. The size of initial packet of map data is shown for each example.