Adaptive composite map projections

IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2575-2582

  Jenny, Bernhard ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

HTML5 Canvas; Multi scale map; web cartography; web map projection; web mapping; web Mercator

Indexed keywords

HTML5 CANVAS; MAP PROJECTION; MULTISCALES; WEB MAPPING; WEB MERCATOR;

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MAPPING; MAPS;

WEB SERVICES;

EID: 84867627255     PISSN: 10772626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVCG.2012.192     Document Type: Article

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