Pat Hanrahan
ABSTRACT
The purpose of a map is to present information about the earth. For millennia cartographers have perfected the craft of map-making, in the process discovering many design principles that now form the basis of cartographic information presentation. One of the challenges facing all of us is how to integrate these traditional principles into modern geographic information systems.
Not surprisingly, many of these cartographic principles apply to other forms of visualization. The first part of the presentation describes how cartographic thinking has informed information visualization. Information visualization research has benefited enormously from the work of great cartographers including Jacques Bertin and Eduard Imhof. The second part presents examples where ideas from information visualization, and progress in automating graphic design, have led to new ways to make maps. A major goal of future research should be to enable computers to present information effectively using a well-designed and beautiful map.
Index Terms
- Cartography and information presentation: a graphics/visualization perspective
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