Real-time geographic visualization of World Wide Web traffic

Cartography, GIS and the World Wide Web

“…As methods for representing and assessing geographic information in the web environment mature, a plethora of research questions arise about how information is used, for what purposes, by whom and to what effect ± questions about the changing role of cartography and GIS for science and society. These issues are beginning to be addressed (Lamm et al, 1996;Gunkel and Gunkel, 1997;Krygier, 1997;Adams, 1997) and will form a central theme of my report next year.…”

Involve Me and I Will Understand!–Abstract Data Visualization in Immersive Environments

“…Recent research [1] has shown that this provides a much better data representation and supports conveyance of properties of the data. Most common are traditional scatter plots that can be found in all varieties [3,4,1] often paired with an appropriate glyph-based representation to show more than three data dimensions in a single display. However, adaptations of other data displays, such as line charts [3] or the parallel coordinates plot [4], have also been proposed.…”

“…Most common are traditional scatter plots that can be found in all varieties [3,4,1] often paired with an appropriate glyph-based representation to show more than three data dimensions in a single display. However, adaptations of other data displays, such as line charts [3] or the parallel coordinates plot [4], have also been proposed. Novel visualization strategies speci cally developed for immersive environments are rare.…”

Scalability of Techniques for Online Geographic Visualization of Web Site Hits

“…Lamm et al (1996) developed a sophisticated system for real-time visualization of Web traffic on a 3D globe, but this required a virtual reality environment, thus limiting its general applicability. Papadakakis et al (1998) described a similar system called Palantir, which ran as a Java applet within a Web browser.…”

“…They generally used whois lookups or parsed the domain name in a crude attempt to guess the country of origin (Lamm et al 1996). Locations outside the United States were typically aggregated by country and mapped to the capital city (Lamm et al 1996;Papadakakis et al 1998;Jiang and Ormeling 2000).…”