Stenomaps: Shorthand for shapes

Goethem, Arthur van; Reimer, Andreas W.; Speckmann, Bettina; Wood, Jo

doi:10.1109/tvcg.2014.2346274

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“…In turn, the statistical and geographical accuracy of these techniques are generally high, while its topology is not maintained. A related approach are StenoMaps [vRSW14], which schematize areas into a single polyline that approximately follows the area's shape (see Figure 21b). This line is generated by relaxing the area's medial axis towards its borders, optimizing a trade‐off between a line in the center of the country and its geographic outline.…”

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The State of the Art in Map‐Like Visualization

Hogräfer

Heitzler

Schulz

2020

Computer Graphics Forum

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Cartographic maps have been shown to provide cognitive benefits when interpreting data in relation to a geographic location. In visualization, the term map‐like describes techniques that incorporate characteristics of cartographic maps in their representation of abstract data. However, the field of map‐like visualization is vast and currently lacks a clear classification of the existing techniques. Moreover, choosing the right technique to support a particular visualization task is further complicated, as techniques are scattered across different domains, with each considering different characteristics as map‐like. In this paper, we give an overview of the literature on map‐like visualization and provide a hierarchical classification of existing techniques along two general perspectives: imitation and schematization of cartographic maps. Each perspective is further divided into four principal categories that group common map‐like techniques along the visual primitives they affect. We further discuss this classification from a task‐centered view and highlight open research questions.

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