Web GIS in practice VIII: HTML5 and the canvas element for interactive online mapping

International Journal of Health Geographics

Volumn 9, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Boulos, Maged N K ^a   Warren, Jeffrey ^b   Gong, Jianya ^c   Yue, Peng ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

^c WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER LANGUAGE; EDITORIAL; FACTUAL DATABASE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; METHODOLOGY;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DATA DISPLAY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; MAPS AS TOPIC; PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES;

EID: 77950416380     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1476072X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-072X-9-14     Document Type: Editorial

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