Multimedia cartography

Multimedia cartography

Multimedia cartography is the collection geographical information in a manner that allows presentation through various display interfaces.

Through multimedia, technology allows for a differing ways of presenting geographic information. The presentation is intended to expand the channels of information available to the user from those of paper based maps. Multimedia offers a different way to view data that has been generated and stored by spatial resource packages.

References

  • Cartwright, W. E., Peterson, M. P. and Gartner, G.(eds), 1999, Multimedia Cartography, Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.



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