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This book contains papers presented at the 2nd International Workshop on Mobile Geospatial Augmented Reality held in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, from the 28-29th of August 2008. It brings together insights and ideas from the pre-eminent researchers in the field. It can serve as both a guide for experts in mobile geospatial augmented reality and as a detailed introduction for those entering the field. This book covers various aspects of mobile augmented reality and location-based computing, demonstrating the growing impact of geospatial technologies upon this topical area ... Read more

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This book combines fully peer-reviewed papers covering topical research in GIScience. Included are papers on fundamental GIScience issues (e.g. interoperability, ontology, data interpretation and data generalization), emerging new topics like the handling and analysis of moving objects, as well as state-of-the-art applications. Furthermore aspects of remote sensing and image understanding are addressed. The compilation of research papers addresses researchers, practitioners, and students interested in current findings in GIScience.

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During the last decade developments in 3D Geoinformation have made substantial progress. We are about to have a more complete spatial model and understanding of our planet in different scales. Hence, various communities and cities offer 3D landscape and city models as valuable source and instrument for sustainable management of rural and urban resources. Also municipal utilities, real estate companies etc. benefit from recent developments related to 3D applications. To meet the challenges due to the newest changes academics and practitioners met at the 5th International Workshop on 3D Geoinformation in order to present recent developments and to discuss future trends. This book comprises a selection of evaluated, high quality papers that were presented at this workshop in November 2010. The topics focus explicitly on the last achievements (methods, algorithms, models, systems) with respect to 3D geo-information requirements.The book is aimed at decicion makers and experts as well at students interested in the 3D component of geographical information science including GI engineers, computer scientists, photogrammetrists, land surveyors, urban planners, and mapping specialists. ... Read more

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This book focuses on visualization modules of GI software and systems, and tries to answer the specific question "How commonly is stereoscopic visualization supported in GI systems?". To achieve this, first whether such support exits or not in mainstream GI software is documented. The study is further detailed to assess which type of stereoscopic operations and viewing methods are supported. Motivated by improving efficiency of stereoscopic visualizations in cartographic do-main, within this survey, it is also examined whether these systems and software offer level of detail management support for stereoscopic data-sets. Findings from the study meant as a guide to researchers and practitioners to assess the cur-rent state of True 3D support in cartography and GI Systems.

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The Workshop Proceedings introduce research results received in the areas of GIS and technologies in relation with Corporate Information Systems (CIS). In this context the attention is also paid to a wide range of problems of data harmonization, integration and fusion (HIF) concept regarding CIS. The book deals with conventional problems of information integration, development of GIS and GIS-applications to a wide spectrum of information systems considerably varying in purpose and scale. New class of GIS – intelligent GIS is considered including principles of their developing and programming technologies. Special attention is drawn to ontologies’ development and their use in GIS and GIS-applications.

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This book presents a state-of-the-art overview of ongoing GIScience research that has been presented at the 10th Conference of the Association of Geographic Information Laboratories for Europe (AGILE), held in Aalborg, Denmark. Included are 27 fully peer-reviewed papers not only covering basic GIScience research themes, but also ongoing research on technological advancements, as well as applied research on environmental modeling and management.

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This book gives a general picture of research-driven activities related to the context of location and map-based services. Such activities emerged in the last years especially around issues of positioning, spatial modelling, cartographic communication as well as in the fields of ubiquitious cartography, geo-pervasive services, user-centered modelling or geo-wiki activities. The innovative and contemporary character of the topics leads to a great variety of contributions in terms of interdisciplinarity, with such varying backgrounds as from academia to business, from computer science to geodesy covering an enormous number of topics. While contemporary cartography is aiming on looking at new and efficient ways on communication spatial information the development and availability of technologies like mobile networking, mobile devices or short-range sensors lead to interesting new possibilities of achieving this aim. ... Read more

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Multimedia Cartography provides a contemporary overview of the issues related to multimedia cartography and the design and production elements that are unique to this area of mapping. The book has been written for professional cartographers interested in moving into multimedia mapping, for cartographers already involved in producing multimedia titles who wish to discover the approaches that other practitioners in multimedia cartography have taken and for students and academics in the mapping sciences and related geographical fields wishing to update their knowledge about current issues related to cartographic design and production. It provides a new approach to cartographyone based on the exploitation of the many rich media components and avant-garde approach that multimedia offers.

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a gem of a book
"The world of Gerard Mercator" is a gem of a book. The author skillfully presents the reader with an extraordinary time in the past that would change the future. This was a time of religious confrontations in Europe coinciding with the making of accurate maps of a quickly expanding world. The legacy of Mercator is still present with us today in the way maps are made. This book contains all the best attributes of a scholarly work, i.e. competent research of primary sources, good maps, illustrations and clear writing. In addition, the author displays the rare gift of being able to share his extraordinary insights into the life and times of Mercator with a general audience. The book makes an easy and extremely enjoyable read. After reading it you will never look at a world map the same way; you will be compelled to scan the map and look for the words, which go unnoticed by most people: "Mercator Projection". I highly recommend this book.

The Man Who Sold The World
The history of maps seems to be an understudied element of history. Yet it had political, economical and religous ramifications and influences.

If you stand in a classroom and look at a map chances are you are looking at a map of which its basic ideas were theorized by Gerard Mercator, a Flemmish born mapmaker who spend most of his life in Duisburg.

In the first chapters we read about his predecessors and influences that made him into the most important cartographer up to this day. It's a book about his personal life, his political life, his economical life and also his religious life.

By challenging some of the basic ideas of the Church, based in part on the ancient Greek Ptolemy, his maps could be seen as heretic. He was jailed for a while but got away with it. He keeps working on new maps, but is constantly haunted by a question: how to draw a 2D map of a spherical 3D world. He eventually came to some conclusion by shortening the lines nearer to the poles; this was both a better way of representation than before, but nowadays somewhat seen as eurocentric, since it makes Europe seem bigger than it really was.

This book is great. Written in simple language so everyone will enjoy it. The author has taken great care into mentioning the political and religious reasonings on mapmaking and also why certain maps look like they do. It's a great book for any lover of ancient maps. ... Read more

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The international Symposium on Spatial Data Handling is the premier research forum for Geographic Information Science. It is the primary event organised by the International Geographical Union’s study group on Geographical Information Science.

The symposium places particular emphasis on identifying significant headway in GIS. The papers published are carefully refereed by an international programme committee composed of experts in various areas of GIS who are especially renowned for their scientific innovation. The proceedings of this series have become an important reference for researchers and students in the field of geography, cartography and geoinformation.

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Excellent Maps
This book has reproduced on quaity paper (the type used for photographic reproductions)some of the best maps of America made bwetween 1500-1800. A good introductory section reviews the history of cartography and provides examples of various aspects of early maps. Very enjoyable and interesting. ... Read more

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Reprint of the 1929 edition. Hardbound. Oversized Octavo. xii, 99 p. front. illus. (maps) 2 pl., port., facsim. Cambridge [Eng.] The University Press, 1929. Sir George Fordham was born in 1859 and produced many publications describing the maps and road books of the British Isles and France and donated his personal road book collection to the Royal Geographical Society. The Society triennially awards the Sir George Fordham Award for Cartobibliography, a 'term introduced by him for the cataloguing of maps on systematic plan' This book provides an outline of the development and progress of the art and science of cartography during the long period which precedes the modern systematic surveys organized by the Governments of the countries of Europe and the American Continent. He begins with the work of Christopher Saxton, a work he regards as laying the foundation of the conception of modern cartography. He also covers the famous French cartographer Nicolas Sanson. Another chapter looks at the foundation of exact and scientific survey by successive members of the Cassini family, and also to the work of the British Ordnance Survey. Many others are covered as well. A list of Works of reference have been added and an index is supplied ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Cartography and Geographic Information Science, published by Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc. on January 1, 2009. The length of the article is 6916 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Early warning and monitoring activities in the field of natural hazard management are crucial in order to limit damage to life and property from extreme natural events. Decision makers in these fields, such as operational hydrologists, must be enabled to quickly and comprehensively assess an on-going situation, examine its details, and then take further actions based on the most current information available. The cartographic challenge is to deliver automated, real-time visualizations from distributed raw measurement data while applying sound cartographic rules and standards. In this research, a web-based, cartographic, real-time information system is presented. True real-time data of Swiss hydro-meteorological measuring networks were used, and a prototype application was tested that integrates the acquisition, processing, and visualizations in different ways, depending on the chosen timeframe and level of detail. Besides monitoring visualizations, data are retraceable using visualizations that clearly stress the course of a hydrological event and the data's spatio-temporal character. Further visualizations and functionalities are provided that allow for relating real-time data to a broader historical context, facilitating learning from former experiences. Data for past events are immediately retrievable from a data archive, then classified and visualized for comparisons.

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Title: Real-time visualization in operational hydrology through web-based cartography.(Report)
Author: Christophe Lienert
Publication: Cartography and Geographic Information Science (Magazine/Journal)
Date: January 1, 2009
Publisher: Cartography and Geographic Information Society, Inc.
Volume: 36Issue: 1Page: 45(14)

Article Type: Report

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