The Web, cartography and information delivery

William Cartwright

Concepts and developments

Agostino Ramelli– circa 1600

‘scholar's workstation‘Vannevar Bush

– Post WWIIMEMEX

Douglas Engelbart– Early 1960s

On-Line System (NLS)William Gibson

– Mid 1980sCyberspace

Ted Nelson– Mid 1980s

HypertextTim Berners-Lee

– 1990 World Wide Web

Marc Andreessen– 1993/1994

Mosaic/Netscape

Founding ideas

VideodiscVIDEODISCThe Aspen Movie Map– The Machine Architecture

Group, MIT– Later the Media Lab

Domesday Project – BBC/– Acorn Computers/– Philips

WebWeb and

Geographical Information

http://navigators.com

Internet 2Usage - Domains

http://www.domainstats.com/

http://navigators.com/statdom.gif

Internetuse –HOMEmonthly

http://epm.netratings.com/au/web/NRpublicreports.usagemonthly

Internetuse –HOME andWORKmonthly

http://epm.netratings.com/au/web/nrpublicreports.usagemonthly

http://www.glreach.com/globstats/index.php3

Internet 2Usage –Internet traffic

http://www.internettrafficreport.com//

Mapping and New Media

Spatial storehousesSpatial decision support systemsMultimedia packages incorporating mapsEducational packages

Mapping and New Media

Image CollectionsDownloadable data filesInformation Services with mapsGlobal publishing housesOn-line GISOn-line mapsWeb atlasesLocation-based services

Image collectionsPerry-Castañeda Library Map CollectionBodleian Library, Oxford UniversityDigital Libraries

National Library of AustraliaSubway Navigator…

Digital Geographical Information Libraries

Netherlands DigitialSpatial Information Library - GeoPlazaHistory of Cartography ProjectAlexandria Digital Library

Downloadable data filesUnited States Geological Survey (USGS)National Mapping, AustraliaNRSMap MakerAlexandria Digital Library (ADL)…

Information services with mapsBusiness geographicsTravel Guides: Lonely Planet, Moon, Rough Guides, …

Global Publishing

International publishinghousesNewspapersBusinessesDelivery– Own communications satellites– Host satellite (eg WestStar)– Web

Electronic distribution / local printing

On-line Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

ESRIGenasysMapInfo…

On-line maps

Delorme CyberRouterXEROX PARC Map ServerMapQuest Interactive AtlasFalkShell…

Journey Plannershttp://beta.mapquest.com/

http://www.shellgeostar.com/shellgeostar/start.hm

http://www.falk-online.de/go_routing.html

http://www.geotalk.de/rout_demo.html

http://www.vicinity.com/yt.hm?CMD=FILL&SEC=cnnguide&FAM=cnn

Web atlasesAustralian Coastal AtlasNational Atlas of Canada Atlas of QuebecAtlas of SwitzerlandUnderstandingUSAAtlas of AustriaAtlas of USA

EncartaDelorme CybermapsNational Geographic Map MachineCoastal Atlas of Australia…

Web Atlases

Understanding USA

http://www.understandingusa.com/chaptercc=10&cs=222.html

Paper support – on demand

Location-based services

Design considerations

http://www.mapquest.com

Scale = representation of reality

– Choosing scale appropriate to mapping task

RepresentationUse

Zoom = multiple-scale mapsHow to cope with scale with MMC?

http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/

Scale

AbsoluteRelative

– Which space?Providing information to the user regarding where they really are!

– Web cams?

http://service.magwien.gv.at/camera/livecam.html

Location

Smithsonian Museum -Revealing Thingshttp://www.animation.about.com/arts/animation/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.si.edu/revealingthings/Maps = ‘time slice’

How to deal with time in MMC– Animation– Slider controls

Access to archiveShowing projections

Visualized ‘time slice’

IntegrityReputable sourceMetadataAccuracy– Limit of accuracy– Accuracy across all of presentation– Dealing with varying degrees of accuracy

‘Maps as accurate representations’

Universities / research establishmentsGeneral publicDisabled

Visually handicapped– Including ‘translations’

from graphics into audio for the blind

W3C Accessibility InitiativeMovement handicapped

– is users only able to make gross movements

Access

Different users

Geographical Storytelling

Putting it together - concept

Build

I’face

Commands

GeoViz

Builder

Archival

Info

(ROM?)

Paper Screen Hybrid Output specifications

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Dynamic Update

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Ground

Truth

(WebCam)

PUBLIC

DATABASE

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COLLECTION

SERVICES

eg weather

WebCams

For data integrity

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Interrogate devices and preferences

Access to tools for GeoViz assembly

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