Geospatial Futures of Cartography: New Technologies and Trends in Mapmaking and GIS, Study notes of Geography

Download Geospatial Futures of Cartography: New Technologies and Trends in Mapmaking and GIS and more Study notes Geography in PDF only on Docsity! Geospatial Futures of Cartography 1. Web Cartography and WebGIS--New Roles for Maps, GIS, and GIS professionals 2. Experiments in Multimedia and Interactivity 3. Virtual Reality, Hand-held and Mobile Technologies 4. New Tools, New Skills Needed 5. Education and Training--CU and elsewhere 6. Trends of Innovation: Barriers and Constraints to Change 1) Web Cartography & WebGIS A) The Potential of Map Servers and WebGIS B) Server-side Strategies C) Client-side Strategies D) Combination and Hybrid Strategies E) Virtual Globes Real-Time GIS @) MONITORING STATION, @ HTTP SERVER 1. External file call RADIO TRACKING SYSTEM, 2. Direct feed from real world sources HTTP SERVER any Kirven 17-98 Hybrid Client-Server Combination SS Sc + > CLIENT (G3) SERVER 1. Request for data 2. Some data and applets returned 3. Continued interaction and transfer ‘Tony Kirvan 12-30-07 2. Experiments in Multimedia and Interactivity These innovations represent the use of an expanded range of visual resources, as well as audio, video, hypermedia. Compare Bertin's visual variables to those outlined by Petersen for animation, or those available with audio and video technologies Peterson, M.P, Between Reality and Abstraction: Non-Temporal Applications of Cartographic Animation, http://maps.unomaha.edu/AnimArt/article.html A. Digital atlas projects U.S. National Atlas Canadian National Atlas B. CD atlases Atlas of Oregon National Geographic, and others Flight atlases 3. Virtual Reality, Hand-held and Mobile Technologies Some examples from Ming-Hsiang Tsou http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Faculty/tsou.html Some Web Examples from Dr. Tonny Oyana • http://www.web3d.org • http://www.geovrml.org • http://www.geovrml.com • http://www.siggraph.org/~rhyne/carto/3D/3D-geovrml.html, • http://www.ai.sri.com/digitalearth/index.shtml • http://www.ai.sri.com/digitalearth/publications.shtml, Pervasive Computing http://www.computer.org/pervasive/