Call for Papers

AAG 2008 Organized Session: Impacts of Internet GIS and Virtual Globes on Cartographic Research

Sponsored by the Cartography and GIS Specialty Groups.

Internet GIS and virtual globes have the potential to significantly alter how maps and other cartographic artifacts are designed, generated, distributed, and interacted with. Such innovative tools as Google Earth, Virtual Earth, or ArcGIS Explorer point toward new research directions and new mapping challenges for cartographers. This session will address the impact of these new applications and tools on cartographic research and the challenges involved in providing effective Internet-based map design. There is a potential to introduce novel visualization methods, develop new cartographic skills, and possibly a need for new paradigms in dealing with such issues as abstraction and map projection. Potential topics for this session include, but are not limited to the following:
　

• dynamic map representation in Web applications (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps)
• mash-ups and map API applications for Internet mapping services
• 3D or temporal data representation on virtual globes
• on-line generalization methods
• vector data compression for Web mapping services
• multimedia cartography on the Internet
• Web-based collaborative mapping tools and virtual communities
• new on-line mapping formats and technologies (PDF, Flash, FLEX, or web services)
  　

To present a paper in the session:
1. Register and submit your abstract online (http://www.aag.org/annualmeetings/).
2. Email your presenter identification number (PIN), paper title, and abstract to both session organizers by October 26, 2007.

Organizers:

Ming-Hsiang Tsou
Department of Geography, San Diego State University
Email: mtsou@mail.sdsu.edu
Website: http://map.sdsu.edu/tsou/

André Skupin
Department of Geography, San Diego State University
Email: skupin@mail.sdsu.edu
Website: http://geography.sdsu.edu/People/Pages/skupin/index.htm