Current Trends in Vector-Based Internet Mapping: A Technical Review

Lienert, Christophe; Jenny, Bernhard; Schnabel, Olaf; Hurni, Lorenz

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-27485-5_3

Cited by 21 publications

(13 citation statements)

References 9 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…webbased multimedia cartography, was methodically handled with techniques offered by proprietary animation software Fig. 10 Implementing mp3 files into iframe elements within a popup bound to a marker products, such as Adobe Flash (e.g., Lienert et al 2012;Muehlenhaus 2018;Siepmann et al 2019). The general availability of the Internet as well as the rising demand for mobile devices required a rethinking of making maps that are accessible for individual user-purposes (see also Fish and Calvert 2016;Hurtig and Scharlach 2018).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Simplicity of Modern Audiovisual Web Cartography: An Example with the Open-Source JavaScript Library leaflet.js

Edler

Vetter

2019

KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Audio files entered cartography about 25 years ago. Since the mid-1990s, several examples of audiovisual maps have been created and published. These maps cover a diverse range of applications. In terms of the sound elements implemented, four characteristic variants were mainly used: abstract sounds/sound sequences, language recordings, and music and recordings/ simulations of the real soundscape. To built audiovisual maps technically, several tools of animation software solutions were intensively explored. The rising importance of the World Wide Web also increased the demand for new and modern web-based approaches of multimedia cartography. One of the core technologies of the Internet is the programming language JavaScript (JS). The language is often associated with the so-called libraries which are applied programming packages pre-written for particular purposes. In cartography, one of the most popular and widely used JS libraries is leaflet.js. This open-source library is known for its simplicity and, meanwhile, it also supports a straightforward integration of multimedia content, such as audio files. It also teams up with HTML5 and CSS3. This paper intends to give a workflow focused on how to create individual audiovisual web mapping applications based on the contemporary options offered by leaflet.js.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In terms of methodological and technical considerations, audiovisual maps had commonly been created with proprietary software for quite a long time, such as Macromedia (later: Adobe) Flash (e.g., Feringa 2001;Lienert et al 2012;Muehlenhaus 2018). These software solutions allowed the connection between a media library (incl.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Simplicity of Modern Audiovisual Web Cartography: An Example with the Open-Source JavaScript Library leaflet.js

Edler

Vetter

2019

KN J. Cartogr. Geogr. Inf.

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…The possibilities of creating maps on the Internet, especially interactive, multimedia, mobile, modifiable, collaborative and/or participative ones, range from high-end GIS systems to very simple mashup maps using APIs. For a review of the dynamic technical developments in the past two decades see Plewe (2007), Haklay et al (2008), Lienert et al (2012) and Hoffmann (2013). The benefits of these mapping possibilities from everyday life are well known.…”

Section: Webmapping-a Brief Overview Of Its Socio-cultural and Technimentioning

confidence: 99%

Pins or Points?—Challenges in Producing Cartographically Appealing Webmaps Within an Editorial Environment for LiD Online

Moser

Koslitz

2016

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Cartographers are facing several challenges in transforming geographic knowledge into interactive webmaps. Of course there are different webmapping technologies that can be used by everybody. Nevertheless implementing special forms of cartographic expression require cartographic knowledge as well as sophisticated programming skills and depend on technical limitations. This paper presents the newly developed cross-media production for the publication series 'Landschaften in Deutschland' (LiD) and discusses different webmapping solutions, their benefits and disadvantages as well as some challenges concerning prosumer-webmapping.

show abstract

“…Various techniques exist for rendering vector data in web browsers (Gaffuri, 2012;Lienert, Jenny, Schnabel, & Hurni, 2012). We opted for HTML5 canvas for rendering vector features.…”

Section: Video Map Layers With Html5 Videomentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive video maps: A year in the life of Earth's CO₂

et al. 2016

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article introduces interactive video maps for the web. The main component of video maps is a video stream that is areally georeferenced to a spatial reference system in the same way rectified raster orthoimages are georeferenced. The areal georeference allows for interactivity that goes beyond the play, pause, and stop functionality of video player software. We highlight two types of functionality, allowing the user to (1) combine the video stream layer with other raster and vector map layers and (2) adjust the projection of the map in real time. We exemplify video maps by A Year in the Life of Earth's CO 2 , an interactive video map that visualizes the results of a high-resolution NASA computer model of global atmospheric carbon dioxide distribution. The map shows how carbon dioxide travels around the globe over the course of one year. We use a combination of WebGL, a programming interface to the hardware-accelerated graphics pipeline, and HTML5 video for adding an areally georeferenced video layer to other map layers, and for the on the fly projection of the video stream in the web browser.ARTICLE HISTORY

show abstract

Current Trends in Vector-Based Internet Mapping: A Technical Review

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

The Simplicity of Modern Audiovisual Web Cartography: An Example with the Open-Source JavaScript Library leaflet.js

The Simplicity of Modern Audiovisual Web Cartography: An Example with the Open-Source JavaScript Library leaflet.js

Pins or Points?—Challenges in Producing Cartographically Appealing Webmaps Within an Editorial Environment for LiD Online

Interactive video maps: A year in the life of Earth's CO₂

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About

Current Trends in Vector-Based Internet Mapping: A Technical Review

Cited by 21 publications

References 9 publications

The Simplicity of Modern Audiovisual Web Cartography: An Example with the Open-Source JavaScript Library leaflet.js

The Simplicity of Modern Audiovisual Web Cartography: An Example with the Open-Source JavaScript Library leaflet.js

Pins or Points?—Challenges in Producing Cartographically Appealing Webmaps Within an Editorial Environment for LiD Online

Interactive video maps: A year in the life of Earth's CO2

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About

Interactive video maps: A year in the life of Earth's CO₂