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1St ICA European Symposium on Cartography Proceedings of the 1st ICA European Symposium on Cartography Georg Gartner and Haosheng Huang (Editors) Vienna, Austria November 10–12, 2015 Editors Georg Gartner, [email protected] Haosheng Huang, [email protected] Research Group Cartography Vienna University of Technology This document contains the online proceedings of the 1st ICA European Symposium on Cartography (EuroCarto 2015), held on November 10-12, 2015 in Vienna, Austria. The symposium was organized by the Research Group Cartography, Vienna University of Technology, and endorsed by International Cartographic Association (ICA) and Österreichischen Kartographischen Kommission (ÖKK). Type setting of the chapters by the authors, processed by Manuela Schmidt, Haosheng Huang and Wangshu Wang. Think before you print! ISBN 978-1-907075-03-2 © 2015 Research Group Cartography, Vienna University of Technology. The copyright of each paper within the proceedings is with its authors. All rights reserved. ii Table of Contents Section I: Cartographic Modelling and Design Jari Korpi and Paula Ahonen-Rainio Design Guidelines for Pictographic Symbols: Evidence from Symbols Designed by Students ................................. 1 Andrea Nass and Stephan van Gasselt Dynamic Cartography: Map-Animation Concepts for Point Features ................................ 20 Sarah Tauscher and Karl Neumann A Displacement Method for Maps Showing Dense Sets of Points of Interest ......................................................... 22 Jakub Straka, Marta Sojčáková and Róbert Fencík Model of Dynamic Labelling of Populated Places in Slovakia ... 24 Wasim A. M. Shoman and Fatih Gülgen A Research in Cartographic Labeling to Predict the Suitable Amount of Labeling in Multi-Resolution Maps ............. 26 Jana Moser and Sebastian Koslitz Pins or Points? Cartographically Appealing Webmaps and Technical Challenges: the Example of “Landschaften in Deutschland Online” ............................................................................. 28 Alžběta Brychtová and Jitka Doležalová s Designing Usable Sequential Color Schemes for Geovisualizations ............................................................................. 31 Paweł Cybulski Visual Suggestiveness and Change Blindness in Dynamic Cartographic Visualisations ................................................................ 33 iii Jochen Schiewe Preserving Attribute Value Differences of Neighboring Regions in Classified Choropleth Maps ........................................................... 35 Giedrė Beconytė Application of Conceptual Model in Thematic Mapping: Representation of Relationships ....................................................... 37 E. Lynn Usery Semantic Representation of Topographic Data for Cartographic Presentation and Application .................................... 39 Salla Multimäki, Antti Mäkilä, Jari Korpi and Paula Ahonen-Rainio Combining Two Datasets into a Single Map Animation ............... 41 Jolanta Korycka-Skorupa and Tomasz Nowacki The Complexity of Cartographic Presentation Types.................... 43 Viktor Putrenko The Spatial Statistical Generalization of Information for Regional Land-use Management in Ukraine ................................... 45 Anna Vetter and Mark Wigley Challenging Cartography in ArcGIS from Esri Switzerland ....... 48 Dominik Käuferle, Christoph Streit and Olaf Forte New National Maps for Switzerland ................................................. 50 Alexander Knapp and Andreas Pammer Automated Generalization at BEV – From Base Models to 1:50k Map ......................................................... 52 iv Section II: Spatial Analysis and Geovisual Analytics Gennady Andrienko, Natalia Andrienko, Alexander Ryumkin, Valery Ryumkin, Gennady Kravchenko, Evegeny Tyabaev, Dmitry Khloptsov and Svetlana Trofimova Exploration and Refinement of Regression Tree Models with Interactive Maps and Spatial Data Transformations ......... 55 Qiuju Zhang, Menno-Jan Kraak and Connie A. Blok Structuring Relations between User Tasks and Interactive Tasks using a Visual Problem-Solving Approach .... 56 Andreas Keler and Jukka M. Krisp Visual Analysis of Floating Taxi Data based on selection areas 58 Beata Medynska-Gulij, Łukasz Halik, Łukasz Wielebski and Frank Dickmann The Multiperspective Visualisation of the Spatial Behaviour of Smartphone Users .......................................... 60 Giuseppe Borruso and Viola Defend Mapping a City’s Activity. A project of Volunteered Geographic Information using Mobile Mapping Collection .............................. 62 Łukasz Halik, Beata Medyńska-Gulij and Maciej Smaczyński The Cartographic Visualizations of the Population Movements during Mass Events with the Use of Drone (UAV) ......................... 66 Sergio Estella and Jamie Gibson Everyone Needs a Map! Evolving Information Society to Provide Insight from Big Data ....................................................... 68 M. T. Manrique, M. Wachowicz , T. Iturrioz and M. A. Manso Towards Mapping Experience Design for the Internet of Things .................................................................... 70 v Pouria Amirian, Anahid Basiri, Francois Van Loggerenberg, Terry Moore, Trudie Lang and Margaret Varga Intersection of Geospatial Big Data, Geocomputation and Cloud Computing ..................................................................................... 72 Lukasz Wielebski The Graphical Attractiveness and Perceived Effectiveness of Cartographic Presentations of Spatio-temporal Accessibility .... 74 Ossi Kotavaara, Tommi Hakkarainen, Tiina Huotari, Timo Keistinen and Jarmo Rusanen Mapping Opportunities for Enhancing Effectiveness of Health Care System by GIS based Accessibility Analyses: Locating Core and Support Services within Long Distances in Northern Finland .............................................................................. 76 Peter Ondrejka, Lukáš Herman, Jan Russnák, Petr Kubíček, Robert Cibula, Pavel Grochal, Josef Chrást, Adam Mertel and Daniel Vrbík Spatial Analysis of Police Open Data as a Part of Community Policing – An Example of Pardubice City (Czech Republic) ....... 92 Anita Graser, Maximilian Leodolter and Hannes Koller Towards Better Urban Travel Time Estimates Using Street Network Centrality ........................................................ 98 Johannes Scholz, Thomas J. Lampoltshammer, Norbert Bartelme and Eveline Wandl-Vogt Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Linguistic Regions and Processes with combined Indeterminate and Crisp Boundaries ................................................................................. 100 vi Section III: Cartographic Technologies René Sieber, Marianna Serebryakova, Raimund Schnürer and Lorenz Hurni Atlas of Switzerland goes online and 3D – Concept, Architecture and Visualization Methods ...................... 102 Akila Sriramulu, Jochen Wendel, Syed Monjur Murshed and Alexandru Nichersu Web-based Interface Development for 3D Geo-spatial Data Visualisation – An open-source and plug-in free approach ..... 104 Mateusz Ilba Advanced CityGML Visualization in 3D Environment ............... 106 Anja Hopfstock, Dominique Laurent and Thomas van Ellett Braasch ELF Basemap – Offering a European Reference Map Service .. 110 Ionuț Iosifescu Enescu, Raluca Nicola, Benjamin Kellenberger, Cristina Iosifescu Enescu, Roman Walt, Meda Hotea, Arlette Piguet and Lorenz Hurni The Wheel of Design – Usability Driven Improvements to the GeoVITe User Interface ................................................................ 114 Erwan Bocher and Olivier Ertz Towards Cartographic Portrayal Interoperability – the Revision of OGC Symbology Encoding Standard ................... 116 Karachevtseva I.P., Kokhanov A.A., Rodionova Zh.F., Zharkova A.Yu., Zubarev A.E., Garov A.S., Matveev E.V. and J.Oberst Modern Methodology for Planetary Mapping................................ 120 lemen Kozmus Trajkovski, Katja Berkopec and Dušan Petrovič Web Maps Adaptation for Smartphones ......................................... 132 vii Nguyen Cam Van, Le thi Kim Thoa, Nguyen Dinh Ky, Nguyen Truong Xuan and Nguyen Manh Ha Building GIS Database for Web Atlas of the Tay Nguyen Region in Vietnam ............................................. 144 Filiz Kurtcebe Altin, Tolga Kaya, Mehmet Bilgekagan Cintimur and Tugba Aydar Geospatial Project Management Portal .......................................... 147 Eric Losang Where Have All the Atlases Gone? Developing Data Structures for a Virtual Research Environment ............................................... 153 Volker Walter, Dominik Laupheimer and Dieter Fritsch Use of Paid Crowdsourcing for the Collection of Geodata ......... 156 Umberto Di Staso, Matteo Matassoni and Raffaele De Amicis INSPIRE and VGI: Specie Distribution in Europe ........................ 160 Otakar Čerba, Karel Charvát, Tomáš Mildorf, Raitis Berzins, Dymitry Kozhukh and Pavel Vlach SDI4apps Points of Interest Knowledge Base ................................ 176 Andrea Lopes Iescheck, Rita de Cássia Marques Alves, Manuella Anaís Rodrigues Fagundes and Gabriel de Souza Data Quality Control for Topographic Mapping Production ..... 178 Alena Vondrakova and Vit Vozenilek Licenses and Open Data in Cartography ........................................ 180 viii Section IV: Cartographic Fundamentals Čeněk Šašinka, Zdeněk Stachoň, Zbyněk Štěrba, Radim Štampach and Kamil Morong New Approach to Experimental Testing in Cartography ............ 182 Andrea Pődör and József Halász Impact of Attentional Issues on Map Use Performance
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