Geospatial Vision New Dimensions in Cartography
This book contains selected papers from participants at the 4th National Cartographic Conference GeoCart’2008, held in Auckland, New Zealand in September 2008. It provides a contribution to the literature related to contemporary Geoinformation and Cartogr
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Antoni Moore, Igor Drecki (Editors)
Geospatial Vision New Dimensions in Cartography Selected Papers from the 4th National Cartographic Conference GeoCart’2008 New Zealand
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Editors Dr Antoni Moore School of Surveying University of Otago PO Box 56 Dunedin New Zealand [email protected]
Igor Drecki School of Geography, Geology & Environmental Science The University of Auckland Private Bag 92019 Auckland New Zealand [email protected]
ISBN: 978-3-540-70967-1
e-ISBN: 978-3-540-70970-1
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography ISSN: 1863-2246 Library of Congress Control Number: 2008932841 c 2008 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover images by Toma˘z Podobnikar and J¨urgen D¨ollner Cover design: deblik, Berlin Printed on acid-free paper 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 springer.com
Table of Contents
About the Authors
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Introduction
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Preface Paper Committee
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Representation 1 Facilitating the Handling of Interactive Atlases by Dynamic Grouping of Functions – The Example of ‘Smart Legend’ Juliane Cron, Samuel Wiesmann and Lorenz Hurni
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2 A User-defined Virtual Reality Chart for Track Control Navigation and Hydrographic Data Acquisition Andrew Ternes, Peter Knight, Antoni Moore and Holger Regenbrecht
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3 Mechanisms on Graphical Core Variables in the Design of Cartographic 3D City Presentations Markus Jobst, Jan Eric Kyprianidis and Jürgen Döllner
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Egocentric Cartography 4 An Egocentric Urban Viewshed: A Method for Landmark Visibility Mapping for Pedestrian Location Based Services Phil Bartie, Steven Mills and Simon Kingham
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5 A Multi-scale Dynamic Map Using Cartograms to Reflect User Focus Grant Carroll and Antoni Moore
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Geovisual Exploration of Uncertainty and Terrain 6 Exploring Tessellation Metaphors in the Display of Geographical Uncertainty Julian Kardos, Antoni Moore and George Benwell
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7 Simulation and Representation of the Positional Errors of Boundary and Interior Regions in Maps Tomaž Podobnikar
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8 Global Morphometric Maps of Mars, Venus, and the Moon Igor V Florinsky
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Web Mapping 9 Scalability of Techniques for Online Geographic Visualisation of Web Site Hits Nigel Stanger
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Afterword D
