By M. J. Kraak, Allan Brown
Maps and atlases are created once info on our geography has been clarified. they're used to discover instructions or to get perception into spatial relatives. they're produced and used either on paper in addition to on-screen. the net is the recent medium for spreading and utilizing maps. This booklet explains the advantages of this medium from the viewpoint of the person, and the map supplier. possibilities and pitfalls are illustrated by way of a collection of case-studies. an internet site accompanies the e-book and gives a dynamic atmosphere for demonstrating a few of the ideas set out within the textual content, together with entry to a easy direction in net cartography in addition to hyperlinks to different attention-grabbing areas on the net. Professor Kraak appears to be like at easy questions similar to "I have this knowledge what am i able to do with it?" and discusses some of the capabilities of maps on the net. internet Cartography additionally appears to be like on the particularities of multidimensional internet maps and addresses subject matters resembling map contents (colour, textual content and symbols), map physics (size and resolution), and the map setting (interface design/site contents).
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Classify) the data, choose different cartographic representation methods and visually compare the resulting map displays. As such, online visual exploration may be followed Use of maps on the Web 27 by downloading the geospatial data for analysis locally. In this respect, there are some interesting examples on the Web relating to the exploration of census data. 19). 20). CDV (Cartographic Data Visualiser) is the software used for the interactive visualisation of the Census data (Dykes, 1998). Regrettably, this possibility for exploration is only available to registered UK academics.
But, this being the case, web map use in a rather broad sense is meant, not limited to just the use of maps which are already displayed on the computer screen by a particular map user. In fact, being considered is the whole process of using the WWW and a web browser to retrieve (geographic) information which is (or can or could be) communicated by cartographic means. At first, the Web is used to find and retrieve data which may be an answer to the geographical questions users have. These geographic data may already come in the form of ready-made cartographic displays or they still have to, or could, be cartographically visualised by the users themselves.
20). CDV (Cartographic Data Visualiser) is the software used for the interactive visualisation of the Census data (Dykes, 1998). Regrettably, this possibility for exploration is only available to registered UK academics. However, currently the software Descartes is being tested for the online cartographic exploration of census data. , 1999). Further developments may be expected at this side of the map use cube, as the WWW environment is preeminently a visual exploration environment. For all these map use goals, the extremely important question may be posed whether the maps that appear on the display screens during or after a WWW-session really are as efficient and effective as they could be.