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Fall 1995 - Summer 1999

Chairperson - Alan M. MacEachren, Penn State U., Dept. of Geography, 302 Walker, University Park, PA 16802, USA; maceachren@psu.edu

Co-Chairperson - Menno-Jan Kraak, ITC, Department of Geoinformatics, P.O. Box 6 - 7500 AA Enschede - The Netherlands; kraak@itc.nl


Terms of Reference - 1995-1999

a. To study and report on the changing and expanding role of maps in science, decision-making, policy formulation, and society in general due to the advent of intelligent dynamic maps that are designed as visual thinking/decision-support tools.

b. To investigate and report on the links between scientific visualization and cartographic visualization and identify ways to facilitate exchange of ideas between cartographers and others working on problems in visualization.

c. To organize workshops and/or seminars for exploring the issues cited above and facilitate transfer of cartographic visualization principles and technology at the international level.

d. To establish a World Wide Web (WWW) site directed to disseminating results of research on cartographic visualization and examples of cartographic visualization products.

e. To produce appropriate publications for dissemination of results of the above efforts.

Regular members

Marek Baranowski -Director, UN/UNEP GRID, WARSAW, Poland

William Cartwright, Department of Land Information, RMIT University, Australia

Antonio Camara, Environmental Systems Analysis Group, New University of Lisbon, Portugal

Peter Fisher, Department of Geography, University of Leicester, UK

Theresa-Marie Rhyne


Corresponding members during 1995-1999 term

  • Andrienko, Gennady, Germany
  • Andrienko, Natalia, Germany
  • Andrzejewska, Maria, Poland
  • Arnberg, Wolter, Sweden
  • Artimo, Kirsi, Finland
  • Marc Armstrong, USA
  • Bishop, Ian, Australia
  • Blok, Connie, The Netherlands
  • Board, Christopher, UK
  • Hanne Brande, Denmark
  • Brewer, Cynthia, USA
  • Buttenfield, Barbara, USA
  • Buziek, Gerd, Germany
  • Carr, Dan, USA
  • Carter, Jim, IL
  • Chambon, Pascal, France
  • Cheremisina, Eugenia, Russia
  • Crampton. Jeremy, USA
  • DiBiase, David, USA
  • Dorling, Danny, UK
  • Dykes, Jason, UK
  • Edsall, Robert, USA
  • Fairbairn, David, UK
  • Filippakopoulou, Dr. Bessie, Greece
  • Fuhrmann, Sven, Germany
  • Mark Gahegan, USA
  • Haug, Daniel, USA
  • Howard, David, USA
  • Jiang, Bin (China), UK
  • Keller, Peter, Canada
  • Khoziainov, Michael, Russia
  • Koussoulakou, Alexandra, Greece
  • Kriz, Karel, Austria
  • Monmonier, Mark, USA
  • Patrik Ottoson, Sweden
  • Peterson, Michael P., USA
  • Sarjakoski, Tapani, Finland
  • Slocum, Terry, USA
  • van der Wel, Frans, The Netherlands
  • Une, Hiroshi, Japan
  • Unwin, Anthony, Germany
  • Wachowicz, Monica, Netherlands
  • Wood, Michael, UK
  • Zentai, Laszlo, Hungary

 

Activities according to the terms of reference

The Commission on Visualization has had a very active 4-year term, after its start (1993-95) as a working group within the Commission on Map Use. The focus from the beginning has been on the expanded horizons opened to cartography and cartographers by recent technological advances that make highly interactive maps possible coupled with a renewed interest within science and society in visual forms of representation as a way to learn about the world. The Commission has met its terms of reference. Part of that work has involved identifications of research priorities in cartographic visualization for the next decade.

In addition to the publications and meetings enumerated below, the Commission has been an active partner with the "Carto Project" within ACM-SIGGRAPH. This project is focused on interchange of ideas between the computer graphics and cartographic research and applications communities. At the SIGGRAPH meetings in 1997, 98, and upcoming in 99, Theresa-Marie Rhyne (as a SIGGRAPH Director, a Commission member, and the lead on the Carto Project) has organized BOF (birds-of-a-feather sessions) to discuss topics of mutual interest. The most important outcome of this effort has been the formation of an official GeoVRML working group within the Web3D Consortium: www.ai.sri.com/geovrml/. The working group will soon submit a "recommended practices" document to the Consortium.. GeoVRML is just one aspect of a growing interest among Commission members in issues related to the integration of cartographic visualization and virtual environment technology.

Publications - Three publications were produced. The first listed below was provided to the Publication Committee. The publishers of the other two journal issues did not provide extra copies. No further publications are in progress at this time.

Computers & Geoscience, Print and electronic special Issue: Exploratory Cartographic Visualization, Alan M. MacEachren and Menno-Jan Kraak (co-editors) 23(4) May, 1997 print, CD-ROM, and WWW: www.elsevier.nl/locate/cgvis.

Cartography and Geographic Information Systems, special issue on Dealing with Time, 26(2), April, 1999, Menno-Jan Kraak, (editor).

International Journal of Geographic Information Science, special issue on Geographic Visualization for Space-Time Analysis, Menno-Jan Kraak and Alan M. MacEachren (co-editors), 13(4) June, 1999. web supplement at: www.geovista.psu.edu/ica/icaijgis.html

Meetings - The Commission held three workshops, detailed below, and another is planned for the two days immediately following the Ottawa meeting.

a) Delft, Netherlands, August, 1996. The focus of this meeting was to showcase current research that matched the Commission terms of reference, bring together people doing this research from within a range of disciplines, and publish an innovative dynamic journal issue, described above. Those attending included: Alan MacEachren, Menno-Jan Kraak, Peter Fisher, Theresa-Marie Rhyne, Marek Baronowski, William Cartwright, Michael Wood, Maria Andrzejewska, Connie Blok, Gerd Buziek, David Fairbairn, David Howard, Frans van der Wel, Robert Kuunders, Rico van Driel, Katherine Synes, Joe Wood, João Fernandes, Hal Moellering, Chris Board, Charles Ehlschlaeger.

b) Gavle, Sweden, June, 1997. Building on the base of research identified at the Delft meeting, the goal here was to begin to develop a research agenda to address critical problems associated with cartographic visualization and its application to science, policy, and education. The meeting resulted in a draft research agenda that was extended over the next year and presented for initial comment at the 7th Annual Conference of Polish Spatial Information Association - see: www.geog.psu.edu.ica/icavis/poland1.html. This meeting was hosted by Bengt Rystedt. Those attending included: Alan M. MacEachren (Penn State, Geography - US), Menno-Jan Kraak (ITC, Geoinformatics - Netherlands), Theresa-Marie Rhyne (Lockheed Martin/EPA - US), William Cartwright (RMIT, Land Information Systems - Australia), Nelson Neves (Environmental Systems Analysis Group - Portugal), Lucy Bastin (U of Leicester, Geography - UK), Jason Dykes (U of Leicester, Geography - UK), Marek Baronowski (UN GRID - Poland), Maria Andrzejewska (UN GRID - Poland), Alexandra Kusoulakou (Aristotle U of Thessaloniki, School of Engineering - Greece), Robert E. Kuunders (Delft U of Technology, Netherlands), Gerd Buziek (Universitaet Hannover, Institut fuer Kartographie - Germany), Connie Blok (ITC, Geoinformatics - Netherlands), Bin Jiang (Free University Berlin, Inst. of geographic sciences - Germany), David Fairbairn (U of Newcastle, Surveying - UK), Fraser Taylor (executive liaison), Mike Wood (ICA President), From University College Gävle-Sandviken: Patrick Ottoson, Johannes Keukelaar, Anna Lundquvist, Mark Ollila, Jie Shan.

c) Warsaw, Poland, May, 1998. The focus of this meeting was to provide another forum for discussion of the latest research advances, a subset of which would be published in a special issue of the International Journal for Geographic Information Science (see below) and to continue discussion of the research agenda. This meeting was hosted by Marek Baronowski. Those attending included: Alan M. MacEachren (Penn State, Geography - US); Menno-Jan Kraak (ITC, Geoinformatics - Netherlands); Theresa-Marie Rhyne (Lockheed Martin/EPA - US); William Cartwright (RMIT, Land Information Systems - Australia); Marek Baronowski (UN GRID - Poland); Jason Dykes (U of Leicester, Geography - UK); Maria Andrzejewska (UN GRID - Poland); Gerd Buziek (Universitaet Hannover, Institut fuer Kartographie - Germany); Connie Blok (ITC, Geoinformatics - Netherlands); Edward Verbree (Delft University of Technology - Netherlands); Gennady L. Andrienko (German National Research Center for Information Technology, Germany); Ian Bishop (Centre for GIS and Modeling, Australia); Sven Fuhrmann Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Germany); Jaakko Kahkonen (Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics, Finnish Geodetic Institute, Finland); Jacek Paslawski, Department of Cartography, Warsaw University).


Future of the Commission - Proposed TERMS OF REFERENCE 1999-2003

a. To study and report on the changing and expanding role of maps in science, decision-making, policy formulation, and society in general due to the continuing technological and conceptual advances that enable new map forms used as visual thinking/decision-support tools. During this term, particular attention will be directed to: (1) changes in the form and object of cartographic representation for visualization (due to developments associated with distributed visualization tools, virtual environments, intelligent agents, and others), (2) integration of cartographic visualization methods with both geographic information systems and geocomputational methods; (3) design and testing of new interface forms that take advantage of and support the changing nature of representation (associated with virtual reality technology, interactive map animation, and others) and of the potential for Internet-based collaborative visualization, and (4) cognitive issues that underlie design and use of map-based visualization tools.

b. To investigate and report on the links between scientific visualization-computer graphics-virtual reality and cartographic visualization and continue to facilitate exchange of ideas between cartographers and others working on problems in visualization and virtual environment design.

c. To organize workshops and/or seminars for exploring the issues cited above and facilitate development and transfer of cartographic visualization principles and technology at the international level.

d. To expand on the existing World Wide Web (WWW) site www.geovista.psu.edu/ica/ICAvis.html directed to disseminating results of research on cartographic visualization and examples of cartographic visualization products. Emphasis will be put on links with other related scientific activities - both from and to the site.

e. To produce appropriate publications for dissemination of results of the above efforts.

A full justification for these terms of reference can be found at:www.geovista.psu.edu/ica/agenda.html

 

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