A qualitative evaluation of maptime, a program for exploring spatiotemporal point data

Cartographica

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 43-68

  Slocum, Terry A ^a   Sluter Jr , Robert S ^a   Kessler, Fritz C ^b   Yoder, Stephen C ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b FROSTBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Johnson County AIMS   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; Change maps; Focus groups; Interviews; Mapping point data; Qualitative methods; Small multiples

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; MAP GRAPHICS; MAPPING METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 5044223560     PISSN: 03177173     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/92T3-T928-8105-88X7     Document Type: Article

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