Multimedia Cartography [Paperback]

The explosion of interactive multimedia cartography products, on online, has generated an immense interest in developing methodologies that best exploit both the technology and the distribution capabilities of multimedia mapping. From a discussion of theoretical elements of multimedia cartography, to chapters on specific products and production tools, to an analysis of future technologies and applications, this is a comprehensive and absorbing exploration of a fast-moving field.

Multimedia Cartography provides a contemporary overview of the issues related to multimedia cartography and the design and production elements that are unique to this area of mapping. The book has been written for professional cartographers interested in moving into multimedia mapping, for cartographers already involved in producing multimedia titles who wish to discover the approaches that other practitioners in multimedia cartography have taken and for students and academics in the mapping sciences and related geographical fields wishing to update their knowledge about current issues related to cartographic design and production. It provides a new approach to cartography  one based on the exploitation of the many rich media components and avant-garde approach that multimedia offers.

Multimedia Cartography.- Development of Multimedia.- The Internet and Multimedia Cartography.- Development of Multimedia  Mobile and Ubiquitous.- Elements of Multimedia Cartography.- Designing Suitable Cartographic Multimedia Presentations.- Design of Multimedia Mapping Products.- Map Concepts in Multimedia Products.- Territorial Evolution of Canada  An Interactive Multimedia Cartographic Presentation.- Wula Na Lnuwekati: A Digital Multimedia Atlas.- The Atlas of Canada  User Centred Development.- Atlas of Switzerland 2  A highly interactive thematic national atlas.- AIS-Austria  An Atlas Information System of Austria.- Toward a New Generation of Community Atlases lCk