“…They have also been widely used in a number of application contexts such as biology (Graham & Kennedy, 2001;Guo, 2003), physics (Doleisch, 2007) and finance (Chang et al, 2007). In particular, CMV are highly relevant to geospatial application, for example: CommonGIS (Andrienko, G. L. & Andrienko, 1999), GeoVISTA studio (Takatsuka & Gahegan, 2002), Improvise (Weaver, 2004), Geoviz Toolkit (Hardisty & Robinson, 2011) and Weave (Baumann & Adviser-Grinstein, 2011). In the geospatial domain, CMV have been used in the visualization of both 2D spatial data (Anselin, Syabri, & Smirnov, 2002;Butkiewicz et al, 2008;Gatalsky, Andrienko, & Andrienko, 2004;Guo, Chen, MacEachren, & Liao, 2006) and 3D spatial data, such as in LinkWinds (Jacobson, Berkin, & Orton, 1994) and Visage (Roth et al, 1996).…”