Territorial Evolution of Canada — An Interactive Multimedia Cartographic Presentation

Exploratory visualization software for reporting environmental survey results

“…They show a tendency to utilise common digital data formats for presenting audio and video imagery whilst ignoring the formats in which qualitative and quantitative data are stored and analysed. The result is that the emphasis is on presenting information, encouraging the users to explore in geographical space, but be passive in the information space (Dorling Kindersley, 1999;Siekierska and Armenakis, 1999). Restricting publication to passive presentation of information, however, fails to exploit the full potential of computerbased media where exploratory visualization (MacEachren, 1994) allows the user (reader) to become active in the information space as well, and includes re-expression of maps and diagrams, and linked views between maps and statistical graphics (Dykes, 1997).…”