Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Volume 1: Selection from ICC 2011, Paris (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography)

This book is comprised of a selection of the best papers presented during the 25th International Cartography Conference which was held in Paris between 3rd and 8th July 2011. The scope of the conference covers all fields of relevant GIS and Mapping research subjects, such as geovisualization, semiotics, SDI, standards, data quality, data integration, generalization, use and user issues, spatio-temporal modelling and analysis, open source technologies and web services, digital representation of historical maps, history of GIS and cartography as well as cartography for school children and education. Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Maple – a Web Map Service for Verbal Visualisation using Tag Clouds Generated from Map Feature Frequencies....Pages 3-12 Audio Cartography: Visual Encoding of Acoustic Parameters....Pages 13-31 Classifying, Analysing and Experiencing Maps....Pages 33-51 Aesthetic Aspects of Early Maps....Pages 53-71 Representations, Diagrams and Visualizations of Space and Place....Pages 73-90 A Map in a Movie – the Role and the Usage....Pages 91-107 A Hazy Mirror? Testing the Reflection of Society in State Topographic Maps....Pages 109-132 Map Collecting Practices....Pages 133-146 The Atlas Toolbox: Concept and Development of a Rule based Map Component for a GIS-VIS Production Environment....Pages 147-159 Front Matter....Pages 161-161 What do People prefer and What is more effective for Maps: a Decision making Test....Pages 163-181 On-demand Cartography for Trekkers....Pages 183-203 Benefits through Linking of analogue and digital Maps....Pages 205-217 Understanding the Influence of specific Web GIS Attributes in the Formation of non-experts’ Trust Perceptions....Pages 219-238 Usability Evaluation of a Map-Based Multi-Publishing Service....Pages 239-257 Front Matter....Pages 259-259 Contemporary and Collaborative Web Concepts as part of a Geo-Knowledge Tool to Assist Park Management....Pages 261-277 Integrating User-contributed Geospatial Data with assistive Geotechnology Using a localized Gazetteer....Pages 279-291 Augmenting Quantum-GIS for collaborative and interactive Tabletops....Pages 293-307 Front Matter....Pages 309-309 Ontology-Based Discovering of Geographic Databases Content....Pages 311-330 Place Names Ontologies....Pages 331-348 Standardization of geographical Names in Croatia....Pages 349-363 Front Matter....Pages 309-309 Location and Cartographic Integration for Multi-Providers Location Based Services....Pages 365-383 Front Matter....Pages 385-385 Interactive Scale-dependent multidimensional Point Data Selection using enhanced Polarization Transformation....Pages 387-408 Automated Delineation of Stream Centerlines for the USGS National Hydrography Dataset....Pages 409-423 Pattern Recognition and Typification of Ditches....Pages 425-437 Model Generalization of the Hydrography Network in the CARGEN Project....Pages 439-457 Evaluation of Properties to determine the Importance of individual Roads for Map Generalization....Pages 459-475 A multi-agent System Approach for Feature-driven Generalization of isobathymetric Line....Pages 477-495 Multiscale Hypsometric Mapping....Pages 497-520 Best Pratices for Polygon Generalisation from medium to small Scale in a GIS Framework....Pages 521-540 CollaGen: Collaboration between automatic cartographic Generalisation Processes....Pages 541-558 The book is a selection of the best papers presented during the 25th International Cartography Conference, held in Paris, France between 3rd and 8th July 2011. The scope of the conference includes all field of today GIS and Mapping research subjects such as GeoVisualization, Semiotics, SDI, Standards, Data quality, Data integration, Generalisation, Use and user issues, Spatio-temporal modelling and analysis, Open source technologies and web services, Digital representation of historical maps, History of GIS and cartography, Cartography for children and education This compilation of selected papers presented at the 25th International Cartography Conference, held in Paris, covers a number of the subject's central themes, ranging from GeoVisualization and data integration to spatio-temporal modeling and analysis.