The Wide Scope of Geovisualisation

摘要

The ICA Commission on Geovisualisation has always been active in engaging with researchers and practitioners in the wider fields of information visualisation and visual analytics. As the oldest discipline concerned with visualising knowledge, cartography has a central place in the 'infovis' community, and contributes to its development as a mature scientific activity. A successful workshop entitled 'GeoVisual Analytics, Time to Focus on Time' was held in September 2012 in conjunction with the GISCience 2012 conference in Columbus, Ohio, USA. A range of papers were presented (all available at 1), with the focus on the use of geovisual analytics approaches for exploring and analysing large datasets with both spatial and temporal components.