The Java properties 3.1 is configured with DeepCProject as the basepath and lon ¼ 87.81606, lat ¼ 28.45786 as the center of the map. The rest of the parameters retain their default values from the OWGIS template. For the Deep-C MapViewer project, four XML files define the menu titles, background layers, main layers and optional layers. As an example, the XML code on listing 2 shows how to configure all the oceanographic variables for the year 2013 as main layers in OWGIS.