: :The role of the map in a Web-GIS environment :Menno-Jan Kraak Menno-Jan Kraak http://www.itc.nl/personal/kraak/ ( ) ITC(The International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation) Head of Department of Geo-Information Processing 1 Introduction Web-GIS GIS GIS Web Function Look Dissemination 3 5 2 Trends in mapping Web Scientific Visualization Visualization Exploratory Data Analysis(EDA) Communication Visual Thinking Public Private Presentation Exploration Known Unknown multiple single 1
Scientific Visualization Geovisualization International Cartographic Association Commission on Visualization and Virtual Environments (URL1) 3 The function of the maps Web :GSDI(Geospatial Data Infrastructure) ( 1) Spatializations(Fabrikant 2000; Skupin and Buttenfield 1997) 1 Function of the map on the Web PDA PC 4 Look of the maps 2
3D 2 Interactive map displaying Napoleon s Campaign 5 The dissemination of maps Web WebGIS data efficiency data density 3
OGC(Open GIS Consortium) Web Interoperability GML(Geographic Markup Language) XML(eXtensible Markup Language) The British Ordnance Survey GML SVG(Scalable Vector Graphics) (2 ) 6 Maps in WebGIS ESRI Geography Network National Atlas of the United States Canadian Atlas Web Canadian Geographic Website Common GIS Project(Andrienko and Andrienko 1999) Geovista Studio(Takatsuka and Gahegan 2002)( 3) PDA GPS etc. 7 Conclutions WebGIS 8 URL s URL1 http://kartoweb.itc.nl/icavis/index.html( http://www.geovista.psu.edu/ sites/icavis/) URL2 http://www.itc.nl/personal/kraak/1812/nap000.swf 4
3 Geovista Studio URL3 http://www.opengis.org/ URL4 http://opengis.net/gml/01-029/gml2.html( ) URL5 http://www.w3.org/xml/ URL6 http://kartoweb.itc.nl/top10nl/index2.htm URL7 http://www.rational.com/uml/index.jsp URL8 http://www.w3.org/tr/svg/ URL9 http://www.w3.org/style/css/ URL10 http://www.macromedia.com/software/flash/ URL11 http://maps.esri.com/ URL12 http://www.esri.com/software/internetmaps/visit_sites.html URL13 http://www.geographynetwork.com/index.html URL14 http://nationalatlas.gov/ URL15 http://atlas.gc.ca/site/english/index.html URL16 http://www.nationalgeographic.com/maps/ URL17 http://commongis.jrc.it/summary.html URL18 http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu/jsp/index.jsp URL19 http://www.geovistastudio.psu.edu/geoviz/images/all_beans.gif 5