"Do i live in a flood basin?" Synthesizing ten thousand maps

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 255-264

  Elias, Miguel ^a   Elson, Jeremy ^b   Fisher, Danyel ^b   Howell, Jon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS; Mashups; Online maps

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; ONLINE SYSTEMS; OPTICAL PROJECTORS; PROGRAMMING THEORY; STANDARDIZATION; TAXONOMIES;

DATA INTERCHANGES; EXPERT USERS; FLOOD BASINS; GEOGRAPHIC VISUALIZATIONS; GIS; MASHUPS; ONLINE MAPPINGS; ONLINE MAPS; PROGRAMMING INTERFACES; PROTOTYPE SYSTEMS; TIDAL WAVES; USER EXPERIENCES;

SURVEYS;

EID: 54149114909     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1357054.1357100     Document Type: Conference Paper

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