International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet

In a few short years, the World Wide Web has transformed the Internet into the primary medium for the dissemi- tion of spatial information in the form of maps

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Peterson, Michael P. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2008, 2008
Edition:1st ed. 2008
Series:Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • An Introduction
  • International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet: An Introduction
  • Delivering geospatial information with Web 2.0
  • Map design for the Internet
  • Web Cartography and the Dissemination of Cartographic Information about Coastal Inundation and Sea Level Rise
  • An Elastic Map System with Cognitive Map-based Operations
  • Technical Development
  • New Approaches for Integrating GIS layers and Remote Sensing Imagery for Online Mapping Services
  • Large format maps on the Internet
  • Advancement of Web Standards and Techniques for Developing Hypermedia Maps on the Internet
  • Spatial functionality based on SVG
  • Google Earth and XML: Advanced Visualization and Publishing of Geographic Information
  • GeoTagMapper: An Online Map-based Geographic Information Retrieval System for Geo-Tagged Web Content
  • An Open Source Development Framework in Support of Cartographic Integration
  • Web Cartography for World Heritage Cities: A survey and evaluation
  • Conceptual Development
  • Development and implementation of an electronic journal for publishing peer-reviewed GIS-based maps on the Web
  • Lost and found, the importance of modelling map content semantically
  • The effects of web mapping applications on user satisfaction: an empirical study
  • Will Today’s Internet Maps be Available Tomorrow? The Preservation and Archiving of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica Through Action Research
  • UMapIT© (Unrestricted Mapping Interactive Tool): Merging the datacube paradigm with an occurrence-based approach to support on-demand web mapping
  • Application Development
  • Distributed Research and Scientific Creativity: Accessible Data for the Social Sciences
  • Teaching Cartography on the Web with a Multimedia GIS: A New Solution
  • Issues in School web Atlas Use: The prototype atlas of Rio Claro — Brazil
  • Maps in the Natural Disasters Networking Platform (NaDiNe) — Meeting the users’ needs: from static images to highly interactive real-time information integration
  • Web-based health mapping — A short way from the data to the user
  • Internet-Based Mapping for the Blind and People with Visual Impairment
  • User-Centered Design Approaches for Web Mapping Applications: A Case Study with USGS Hydrological Data in the United States
  • Journalistic Cartography on the Web: A Comparisonof Print and Online Maps in Seven Major American Newspapers