Rethinking map legends with visualization

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 890-899

  Dykes, Jason ^a   Wood, Jo ^a   Slingsby, Aidan ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cartography; design; Digimap service; legend; online web mapping; visualization

Indexed keywords

CARTOGRAPHY; DIGIMAP SERVICE; DIGITAL MAPPING; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; DYNAMIC PROPERTY; GROUND TRUTH; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; INTERACTIVE SOFTWARE; LEGEND; RE-EVALUATION; TERTIARY EDUCATION; WEB MAPPING;

COMPUTER GRAPHICS; DESIGN; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MAPS; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

VISUALIZATION;

EID: 78149248045     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2010.191     Document Type: Article

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