Map design and visualization
The Cartographic JournalPublished 1 December 1993
P. Fisher, Jason Dykes, Jo Wood
Citations25
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There is much opportunity for cartographers and geographers to benefit from the computational possibilities being opened by visualization researchers, and similar for the visualization software developers and users to learn best-practice in display methods from cartographers.
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AbstractScientific Visualization is a growing area of computing with the underlying philosophy that displaying visual representations of data assists humans in generating ideas and hypotheses about the data. The emphasis is on the fostering of ideas as opposed to presentation of information, as in conventional cartography. Having said that, it would appear that there is much opportunity for cartographers and geographers to benefit from the computational possibilities being opened by visualization researchers, and similar for the visualization software developers and users to learn best-practice in display methods from cartographers.
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