Zooming in–zooming out hierarchies in place descriptions

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue 9783642342028, 2013, Pages 339-355

  Richter, Daniela ^a,b   Vasardani, Maria ^b   Stirlng, Lesley ^b   Richter, Kai Florian ^b   Winter, Stephan ^b  

^a KARLSRUHE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Granularity; Hierarchies; Place descriptions; Salience

Indexed keywords

TELECOMMUNICATION SERVICES;

CONSTRUCTION PRINCIPLE; GRANULARITY; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURES; HIERARCHIES; IMPLICIT RELATIONSHIPS; PLACE DESCRIPTIONS; SALIENCE; SPATIAL GRANULARITY;

LOCATION BASED SERVICES;

EID: 84995619371     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-34203-5_19     Document Type: Chapter

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