Geospatial Vision: New Dimensions in Cartography

252 Pages·2008·26.36 MB·English

by  Juliane Cron

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
SeriesEditors:William Cartwright,GeorgGartner,LiqiuMeng,
MichaelP.Peterson
Antoni Moore, Igor Drecki
(Editors)

Geospatial Vision
New Dimensions in Cartography

Selected Papers from
the 4th National Cartographic Conference GeoCart’2008
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Table of Contents
About the Authors VII
Introduction XV
Preface XVII
Paper Committee XXI
Representation
1 Facilitating the Handling of Interactive Atlases by Dynamic 1
Grouping of Functions – The Example of ‘Smart Legend’
Juliane Cron, Samuel Wiesmann and Lorenz Hurni
2 A User-defined Virtual Reality Chart for Track Control 19
Navigation and Hydrographic Data Acquisition
Andrew Ternes, Peter Knight, Antoni Moore and Holger
Regenbrecht
3 Mechanisms on Graphical Core Variables in the Design 45
of Cartographic 3D City Presentations
Markus Jobst, Jan Eric Kyprianidis and Jürgen Döllner
Egocentric Cartography
4 An Egocentric Urban Viewshed: A Method for Landmark 61
Visibility Mapping for Pedestrian Location Based Services
Phil Bartie, Steven Mills and Simon Kingham
5 A Multi-scale Dynamic Map Using Cartograms to Reflect 87
User Focus
Grant Carroll and Antoni Moore
VI Contents
Geovisual Exploration of Uncertainty and Terrain
6 Exploring Tessellation Metaphors in the Display of Geographical 113
Uncertainty
Julian Kardos, Antoni Moore and George Benwell
7 Simulation and Representation of the Positional Errors of 141
Boundary and Interior Regions in Maps
Tomaž Podobnikar
8 Global Morphometric Maps of Mars, Venus, and the Moon 171
Igor V Florinsky
Web Mapping
9 Scalability of Techniques for Online Geographic Visualisation 193
of Web Site Hits
Nigel Stanger
Afterword Developing Concepts for an Affective Atlas 219
William Cartwright, Adrian Miles, Brian Morris, Laurene
Vaughan and Jeremy Yuille
About the Authors
Phil Bartie is a PhD candidate at the Geospatial Research Centre, Univer-
sity of Canterbury, NZ. Previously he has worked in government and
commercial sectors designing and implementing GIS solutions. He holds a
BSc(Hons) in Human and Physical Geography, and MSc in GIS. His re-
search interests are in location based services, interface design, and visibil-
ity analysis.
Contact: [email protected]

George Benwell is Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Commerce) and Dean of the
Business School at the University of Otago, NZ. After working as a sur-
veyor, consultant and University of Melbourne academic, he joined
Otago’s Information Science Department as a senior lecturer in 1990. He
led the Department from 2001-2006 before becoming Dean in 2007. His
research and teaching are mainly focused on spatial information processing
and analysis, and land and health-related information systems. He cur-
rently holds a Bachelor of Surveying from the University of Melbourne, an
MPhil from City University, London and a PhD from Melbourne.
Contact: [email protected]

Grant Carroll graduated from the University of Otago (NZ) in 2006 with
a BAppSc in Geographic Information Systems and Software Engineering.
He has been working at Marlborough District Council (NZ) as their GIS
Technician / Developer since mid 2007. He also does contract work for a
property firm specialising in Treaty Settlements. His research interests in-
clude the tessellation of space in 2D / 3D and network / route mapping. He
is actively working to leverage the most out of the council technology to
make it easier and more accessible for all users.
Contact: [email protected]
VIII About the Authors
William Cartwright is President of the International Cartographic Asso-
ciation. He is Professor of Cartography and Geographical Visualization in
the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University,
Australia. He holds a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Mel-
bourne and a Doctor of Education from RMIT University. He has six
other university qualifications - in the fields of cartography, applied sci-
ence, education, media studies, information and communication technol-
ogy and graphic design. He joined the University after spending a number
of years in both the government and private sectors of the mapping indus-
try. His major research interest is the application of integrated media to
cartography and the exploration of different metaphorical approaches to
the depiction of geographical information.
Contact: [email protected]

Juliane Cron studied cartography at the HTW Dresden and finished her
studies in 2006 with a diploma thesis about “Graphical User Interfaces of
Interactive Atlases”. Since November 2006 she works at the Institute of
Cartography at the ETH Zurich in the project “Swiss World Atlas interac-
tive” and is responsible for the editorial concept, i.e. usability, design and
implementation of the GUI.
Contact: [email protected]

Jürgen Döllner is a Professor at the Hasso-Plattner-Institut of the
University of Potsdam, directs the computer graphics and visualisation
division. He has studied mathematics and computer science and received a
Ph.D. in computer science. He researches and teaches in real-time
computer graphics, spatial visualisation, software visualisation, and spatial
data infrastructures..
Contact: [email protected]

Igor Drecki is currently a manager of the Geo-graphics Unit at the School
of Geography, Geology and Environmental Science, The University of
Auckland, New Zealand. His previous professional experience included
private, government and academic environments where he worked as a
cartographer. Igor’s research interests focus on geographical information
uncertainty representation, and also include cartographic design and educa-
tion. He is currently the Editor of ICA News, the newsletter of the Interna-
tional Cartographic Association, and Vice President of the New Zealand
Cartographic Society.
Contact: [email protected]
About the Authors IX
Igor Florinsky is a Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Mathe-
matical Problems of Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, where he has
been since 1993. He completed his PhD in that year at the Moscow Insti-
tute of Engineers for Geodesy, Aerophotography, and Cartography (MII-
GAiK). His research interests include: development of algorithms, meth-
ods, and software for digital terrain modelling; multi-scale studies of soil
and landscape processes; problems of structural geology; interaction be-
tween environment and human activities (using methods of digital terrain
modelling, GIS, and spatial statistics); study of the temporal domain in
soil, geophysical, and biological processes by singular spectrum analysis;
and influence of the geological environment on human health and behav-
iour. In 1998-2004, he worked at the Manitoba Land Resource Unit, Agri-
culture and Agri-Food Canada, and Department of Soil Science, University
of Manitoba, Winnipeg.
Contact: [email protected]

Lorenz Hurni is Professor of Cartography and director of the Institute of
Cartography at the ETH Zurich since November 1996. Under his lead, the
multimedia “Atlas of Switzerland” as well as a new interactive version of
the “Swiss World Atlas”, the official Swiss school atlas, are being devel-
oped. The emphasis of his research lies in cartographic data models and
tools for the production of printed and multimedia maps. Another focus of
research covers interactive, multidimensional multimedia map representa-
tions. The new possibilities are being explored in international, interdisci-
plinary projects and being imparted to a broad audience in lectures and
courses for students and practitioners.
Contact: [email protected]

Markus Jobst is a Post Doctoral research grant fellow at the Hasso-Plattner-
Institut, University of Potsdam. Besides his commercial multimedia-
cartographic activities and the coordination of the scientific projects for
photogrammetric documentation and cartographic heritage, Markus has
substantial knowledge of digital photography, reproduction and multimedia
dissemination processes. His main foci in scientific work are in communi-
cation of spatial related data, multimedia 3D cartography, digital carto-
graphic presentation methods including crossmedia publishing and the
c reation of management tools with the help of digital cartography.
Contact: [email protected]
X About the Authors
Julian Kardos completed his PhD on the visualisation of uncertainty in
Geographic Information Systems in 2005. Since completing his PhD,
Julian has been active in GIS research and publications. Julian continues
his involvement in the GIS community undertaking work with Intergraph
Corporation, a GIS solution provider, as a Business Development Manager
and Consultant. Julian has extended his focus beyond the visualization of
uncertainty into collaboration and spatial data infrastructures.
Contact: [email protected]

Simon Kingham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geogra-
phy, at the University of Canterbury (Te Whare Wananga O Waitaha). He
came to the University of Canterbury in 2000 having completed his PhD at
Lancaster University and having worked at the Universities of Newcastle,
Huddersfield and Hertfordshire in the UK. His research focuses on urban
issues including transport and accessibility usually with a GIS framework.
Contact: [email protected]

Peter Knight is a lecturer in Hydrographic Surveying at the School of
Surveying, University of Otago, New Zealand. His research interests in-
clude Common Pool Resource Management and he has been studying the
social, commercial and spatial aspects of the Bluff oyster fishing commu-
nity in southern NZ. Peter graduated in 1980 with a Diploma in Hydro-
graphic Surveying from Humber College in Toronto. This start in survey-
ing enabled him to begin a 10 year university career that produced a BA
(Guelph 1987); BSc (Surveying-Toronto 1990); and an MASc (Civil Engi-
neering-Toronto 1994). Peter’s career as a Hydrographer continued with
his appointment as a multi-disciplinary hydrographer with the Canadian
Hydrographic Service (1993), a position he held until coming to Otago. He
came to New Zealand from Canada in 1997.
Contact: [email protected]

Jan Eric Kyprianidis is a Ph.D. student at the Hasso-Plattner-Insitut of
the University of Potsdam. His research interests include non-
photorealistic rendering and digital image processing. He received a
diploma in mathematics from the University of Hamburg, Germany.
Before joining HPI, he worked as a senior software engineer at Adobe
Systems.
Contact: [email protected]