Study on GIS Visualization on Internet

Author

Jiang, Lili ; Qi, Qingwen ; Zhang, An

Author_Institution

Inst. of Geogr. Sci. & Natural Resource Res., Grad. Sch. of the Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Oct. 2008

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

This paper discusses the GIS visualization on Internet. With the development of geographic information technology and the popularization of Internet, people are getting to realize the importance of the GIS visualization on Internet. The aim of GIS visualization is applying the geographic information to the readers effectively, it is to say, the visualization designers should translate or convert the geographic information into visualization exactly. They should know what the readers´ want is, how to choose the visualization method, how to organize the information, and then how to express the geographic information on Internet. How to grasp the readers´ requirement and display it effectively are the core of GIS visualization. The GIS visualization on Internet should remain the task of geographic information data handling world to test the displays on their effectiveness. Some examples application about emergency mapping on Internet will help discuss this issue.

Keywords

Internet; data visualisation; geographic information systems; GIS visualization; Internet; geographic information system; Content addressable storage; Data handling; Data visualization; Disaster management; Displays; Environmental management; Geographic Information Systems; Information technology; Internet; Testing;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications, Networking and Mobile Computing, 2008. WiCOM '08. 4th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Dalian

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2107-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2108-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WiCom.2008.2879

Filename

4681068