• DocumentCode
    1997944
  • Title

    The thematic mapping system on internet

  • Author

    Jiang, Lili ; Qi, Qingwen ; Zhang, An

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Geogr. Sci. & Natural Resource Res., CAS, Beijing, China
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    18-20 June 2010
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • Abstract
    Thematic Mapping Services (TMS) is about providing thematic mapping and analysis as a service way on internet. After the Internet Google launch Google Maps on the Internet in 2005, map application on the Internet appeared in large numbers. A large number of developers through the Google map API mashups maps out a wide variety of applications. With the concept of Web2.0, sharing a large number of open API, the coupling between data services and application services, made geographic visualization with the development of logical analysis. Developers to leverage some of the Government´s statistical analysis of data, combined with Google map, super imposed out of a variety of applications, such as: revenue analysis of people in the Chicago area, the earthquake damage in Haiti and so forth. The paper is discussing the new ways and means of thematic mapping in the internet environment to make the maps express more dynamic, more lively and easier to understand.
  • Keywords
    Internet; cartography; data visualisation; geographic information systems; statistical analysis; Google maps; Internet; TMS; Web2.0; geographic visualization; statistical analysis; thematic mapping services; Databases; Engines; Geographic Information Systems; Internet; Production; Statistical analysis; XML; internet; internet mapping; thematic map;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Geoinformatics, 2010 18th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Beijing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-7301-4
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GEOINFORMATICS.2010.5567802
  • Filename
    5567802