GTMapLens: Interactive Lens for Geo‐Text Data Browsing on Map

Abstract

Data containing geospatial semantics, such as geotagged tweets, travel blogs, and crime reports, associates natural language texts with geographical locations. This paper presents a lens‐based visual interaction technique, GTMapLens, to flexibly browse the geo‐text data on a map. It allows users to perform dynamic focus+context exploration by using movable lenses to browse geographical regions, find locations of interest, and perform comparative and drill‐down studies. Geo‐text data is visualized in a way that users can easily perceive the underlying geospatial semantics along with lens moving. Based on a requirement analysis with a cohort of multidisciplinary domain experts, a set of lens interaction techniques are developed including keywords control, path management, context visualization, and snapshot anchors. They allow users to achieve a guided and controllable exploration of geo‐text data. A hierarchical data model enables the interactive lens operations by accelerated data retrieval from a geo‐text database. Evaluation with real‐world datasets is presented to show the usability and effectiveness of GTMapLens.

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