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Title: | Informing Online and Mobile Map Design with the Collective Wisdom of Cartographers | Authors: | SCHOENING, Johannes Hecht, Brent Kuhn, Werner |
Issue Date: | 2014 | Publisher: | ACM | Source: | Proceedings of The International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems DIS 2014, p. 754-774 | Abstract: | Despite the large and growing prominence of online and mobile maps, they have not been broadly and systematically examined with a lens informed by traditional cartography. Using an approach rooted in cartographic theory and a unique dataset of 382 publicly-displayed local maps, we identify the collective wisdom of hundreds of cartographers with respect to a number of cartographic design decisions. We compare our findings to the approaches taken in popular online and mobile map platforms and develop suggestions for incorporating the collective wisdom of cartographers into these systems. Our suggestions include the adoption of location-aware cartography, in which cartographic approaches are intelligently varied based on the type of location being viewed. We provide mockup designs of online and mobile maps that implement our suggestions and discuss means by which the surprising gap between online and mobile maps and traditional cartography may be bridged. | Keywords: | mobile maps; online maps; cartography; geography; local maps; map design | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/16938 | ISBN: | 9781450329026 | DOI: | 10.1145/2598510.2598543 | Rights: | Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from Permissions@acm.org. | Category: | C1 | Type: | Proceedings Paper | Validations: | vabb 2018 |
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