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Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications Book

By Book, Book Reviews, geographic visualization, giscience

Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications is now available in all good book stores, edited by Martin Doge, Mary McDerby and Martin Turner it includes a chapter by us on the ‘Visual City’ and is genuinely a must read for those interested in the field.

The text covers the impact of three-dimensional displays on user interaction along with the potentialities in animation and clearly explains how to create temporally sensitive visualizations. It also explores the potential for handling mobile data and representing uncertainty; as well as the role of participatory visualization systems and exploratory methods.

It’s hallmark features include: an introduction to the diverse forms of geographic visualization which draws upon a number of theoretical perspectives and disciplines to provide an insightful commentary on new methods, techniques and tools; richly illustrated in full colour throughout, including numerous relevant case studies and accessible discussions of important visualization concepts to enable clearer understanding for non-technical audiences; and, chapters that are written by leading scholars and researchers in a range of cognate fields, including, cartography, GIScience, architecture, art, urban planning and computer graphics with case studies drawn from Europe, North America and Australia.

This book is an invaluable resource for all graduate students, researchers and professionals working in the geographic information sector, computer graphics and cartography.

You can buy the book online via our Amazon Essential Reading Store

Welcome to MapTube from CASA: A Place to Put Maps

By google maps, MapTube

MapTube is a new site from our lab, the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis at University College London. Put simply it is a place to share, mix and mash maps with a nod towards professional map makers rather than the more widely seen ‘MyMaps’ type applications.


The main principle of MapTube is that shared maps can be overlayed to compare data visually. For example, to see a map of the London Underground overlayed on top of a map of population you simply go to the search page and enter the keywords “tube” and “population”. Then click on the two relevant maps to add them.

In this way any combination of data can be quickly and easily visually compared. The maps are created using our free of charge software – GMap Creator, a new version launches this week allowing any ESRI .SHP file or Formatted .CSV to be converted and used on MapTube.

For the last few weeks a back end section of the site has been used by BBC Radio Four’s PM Show to create a mood map of the credit crunch in the UK. Radio 4 listeners have been inputting their postcode and answering a simple question on the credit crunch to automatically create a map of the nations mode. This indicates a future direction of the site with both freely available software and server based map applications, all subsequently viewable against any other local, national or global dataset on the site.

It is early days but we see MapTube as an exciting way forward in sharing and viewing maps online…..

Try it out yourself at http://www.maptube.org

Geolocate Comments in Panoramas: Street View in China by City 8

By Panoramas, Street View

City8.com in China have a unique take on the use of panoramas to provide information about the city. Systems such as Google’s Street View provide a blanket coverage of the road system but in reality are little more than ‘eye candy’. City 8 on the other hand allows users to tag information inside the panorama – creating a simple yet effective way to geolocate comments and info on the urban environment.

The YouTube movie below provides an insight:

Take a look at http://www.city8.com for more info…

Maps- Miss West Carolina Speaks Out

By Maps

*An update to the post – interestingly bringing in quite a few complaint emails and thus the joke it seems is on us ๐Ÿ™‚ our apologies if you took offense, take a look at http://admiralnovia.net/wp/2007/08/28/miss-south-carolina-vs-youtube/ for the full story

Its good to be back ๐Ÿ™‚ The original post is below*

We could comment on this one but really its almost beyond belief. Embedded below is Miss West Carolina’s thoughts on Maps, sit back, turn up the sound and wonder what went wrong with the education system:

We are back, after a slightly extended break due to London having its warmest/sunniest start to May on record. In a city that is often cloudy and wet it was too much to miss the sunshine but from now on its back to the blog.

This afternoon look out for a post on our new mapping system known as ‘MapTube’, its use by BBC Radio 4 and news on its launch – its really rather good…..

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