Thematic Maps on Virtual Globes
ISBN 978-85-88783-11-9
Authors
1Gede, M.
1DEPT. OF CARTOGRAPHY AND GEOINF., EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY Email: saman@map.elte.hu
Abstract
With the emerge of virtual globes several new visualization methods appeared, taking advance of the possibilities of this new media. Just like it happened in web-mapping, where thousands of ugly new „maps” was born without any consideration of the traditional cartographic design criteria, everybody started to fill Google Earth with prism maps, graduated 3D symbols and animations with sometimes questionable results. This paper tries to summarize the types of thematic maps on virtual globes, the possible software solutions and to give some hints about cases when such a visualisation is desirable as well as those when it should be avoided.
Keywords
Virtual Globes; Thematic Maps; Visualization