Development of interactive maps of geolocations of native plants of Kazakhstan and the living collections of the Mangyshlak experimental botanical garden

RSE “Mangyshlak Experimental Botanical Garden” of SC MES RK, Aktau, 130000, Kazakhstan

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to identify problems, demonstrate results and assess the prospects for compiling interactive digital maps of native plants of Kazakhstan and the MEBG living collections, to be distributed through the Internet. Here we present four interactive maps: MEBG collections in the 10th sub-district of Aktau; herbarium specimens of plants from the Garden’s gene pool; samples of the herbarium of the natural flora of Western Kazakhstan and plants of the natural flora of Kazakhstan. Standard web programming languages are used to compile Internet maps. The creation of html pages and server versions of databases is carried out automatically in specially developed computer program modules. They are compiled in MEBS for the dry conditions of Mangistau.