The Need for Web Legend Services

Bucher, Bénédicte; Buard, Elodie; Jolivet, Laurence; Ruas, Anne

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-76925-5_4

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“…To this dialectical relationship of the problem -the visual characteristics resulting from cartographic operations -some research adds the factor of intention and highlights the need to provide a description and explanation of the objectives and means of production put in place to achieve them. Bucher et al (2007) propose, among other things, to explicitly represent these objectives according to the scale, the characteristics represented (represented features) but also to establish the relationships between these features and the reading modalities. The study by Kent and Vujakovic (2009) is an important reference point for the field because their quantitative analysis deals with an extensive corpus of European topographic maps, produced by twenty national mapping Organizations (NMOs).…”

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Fifty shades of Roboto: Text Design Choices and Categories in Multi-Scale Maps

Biniek

Touya

Rouffineau³

2019

Adv. Cartogr. GIScience Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The impetus induced by the development of multi-scale, multi-style maps calls for thinking our resources and protocols with greater interoperability. In the field of toponymy, this requires, in particular, thinking of categories and their structuring with more granularity. Assuming that typography, as a device for visualizing toponyms, is a tool whose potential is still under-exploited, we ask ourselves how the field of typographic design can improve our understanding of toponymic categories and help to structure them in a multi-scale logic. The approach adopted to answer this question is to analyse several existing maps to find good and bad practices. We identified different styles of place names and we built a typology of text features in the surveyed maps. The surveyed maps are the 1&thinsp;:&thinsp;35&thinsp;000 scale, in IGN-France, OSM and GoogleMaps portals.</p>

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Fifty shades of Roboto: Text Design Choices and Categories in Multi-Scale Maps

Biniek

Touya

Rouffineau³

2019

Adv. Cartogr. GIScience Int. Cartogr. Assoc.

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“…Ultimately, design relies on a cartographer's judgments in the light of experience and consideration of use. A creative and open approach is important throughout the process [7,24,33,42]. Continual reflection, discussion, task-based evaluation and redesign should be applied [35] as the designer "edits vigorously" [4].…”

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Rethinking Map Legends with Visualization

Dykes

Wood

Slingsby

2010

IEEE Trans. Visual. Comput. Graphics

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This design paper presents new guidance for creating map legends in a dynamic environment. Our contribution is a set of guidelines for legend design in a visualization context and a series of illustrative themes through which they may be expressed. These are demonstrated in an applications context through interactive software prototypes. The guidelines are derived from cartographic literature and in liaison with EDINA who provide digital mapping services for UK tertiary education. They enhance approaches to legend design that have evolved for static media with visualization by considering: selection, layout, symbols, position, dynamism and design and process. Broad visualization legend themes include: The Ground Truth Legend, The Legend as Statistical Graphic and The Map is the Legend. Together, these concepts enable us to augment legends with dynamic properties that address specific needs, rethink their nature and role and contribute to a wider re-evaluation of maps as artifacts of usage rather than statements of fact. EDINA has acquired funding to enhance their clients with visualization legends that use these concepts as a consequence of this work. The guidance applies to the design of a wide range of legends and keys used in cartography and information visualization.

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“…The importance of symbols and colors in defining the meaning and appearance of a map is echoed by work conducted by Bucher et al 20 Symbols and colors are variable display components of a geospatial data set. Their selection is dependent on the designer.…”

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Understanding geospatial interests by visualizing map interaction behavior

Aoidh

Bertolotto

Wilson

2008

Information Visualization

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Much information can be derived about users' geospatial information requirements based on how they interact with a geospatial system. Our research focuses on the analysis of mouse movements and map navigation operations as a proxy to implicitly determine users' interests. Visualization provides an effective way of investigating how these interactions can provide an insight into users' preferences and task at hand. This article describes GIViz (Geospatial Interactions Visualizer), a visualization tool that enables system designers to analyze user interface behavior with a geospatial data set. Behavior traits identified can be exploited to improve map personalization engines. In particular, this article discusses the visualization of user interface behavior to gain a better understanding of the correlation between users' actions, the interaction strategy employed for approaching a particular type of task and users' interests.

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The Need for Web Legend Services

Cited by 10 publications

References 3 publications

Fifty shades of Roboto: Text Design Choices and Categories in Multi-Scale Maps

Fifty shades of Roboto: Text Design Choices and Categories in Multi-Scale Maps

Rethinking Map Legends with Visualization

Understanding geospatial interests by visualizing map interaction behavior

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