"Happy-hour" browser+

[Hugh D. Wilson]

Chris Garvy says:

>      James H. Beach's classification browser is not such a happy-hour item
>      as many no doubt might think. ...

Given this, and mapping queries/responses, you might check
experimental (data not fully proofed and systems not polished as
yet) pages at:

http://csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/kartesz/karchen3.htm

a combo classification/mapping (two levels) page that expresses data from
large scale (BONAP) and lower level (Texas) sources

and

http://csdl.tamu.edu/~erich/web/herbcollquery.html

which maps - 'on the fly' (select 'distribution map') herbarium
specimen records by county (try family level search) to an imagemap
that can be linked to other data resources

With current WWW systems, and those coming (JAVA), navigation
through complex and rich data paths is quite 'doable' now and the
future potential seems to be unlimited.




Hugh D. Wilson
Texas A&M University - Biology
h-wilson at tamu.edu (409-845-3354)
http://www.isc.tamu.edu/~hugh/homepage.html