Animated Cartography, a visual interface to simulate car traffic

摘要

Our work describes a model and an application to present the car traffic simulation on the Popocatépetl Volcano zone. Since 1994, Risk Management Office in Mexico has declared around 30 km from the Popocatépetl Volcano crater a danger zone. This office defined several roads to evacuate the people when a Volcano event can be presented. Our application takes data from GML format (Geography Markup Language) describing the simulation car traffic. The system who constructs the simulation was developed for the Fraunhofer FIRST team in Berlin, Germany. The data are translated to SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) format to be visualized in a browser and to produce in an animated cartography environment the car traffic simulation on the Popocatépetl Volcano area.