The representation of data in a viewable medium or format
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What Makes a Map Beautiful?
Often times when we make maps it is based on our subjective interpretation of what is aesthetically pleasing. I would like if people posted examples of beautiful maps, displaying any phenomena in any ...
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Flow mapping visualization using a road layer
I am trying to illustrate travel using a flow map on a road layer. My data is:
city of origin
destination
number of travelers
I would like to use a polygon city layer (or point) and a road layer, ...
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How do I visualize a time and space sequence of events in ArcGIS?
I would like to visualize this scenario:
I have 5 weather stations. I would like to present a sequence of rainfall events for them. For example, rain was starts at station 2 at 6:09 and then went to ...
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Cartogram on ArcGIS 10.1
I am new to ArcGIS. I would like to build a cartogram map both on ArcGIS 10.1 and Web GIS. I have a basemap and a set of raw data in excel. I wondered what are the steps to build up a cartogram map on ...
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How to create a visualisation of the world's aeronautical flight paths?
I am a sculptor making a world globe art project, and I need a still image of the whole world’s actual air traffic routes to use as reference material.
To be clear, I’m not looking for the ‘air ...
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What is the best way to visualize multiple large LIDAR tiles?
I want to load approximately 10 large LIDAR tiles for analysis. I have tried using ArcScene but it appears there is a limit on how much data ArcScene can handle at one time. Each tile is 65-90MB in ...
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automate color palette generation?
I frequently am in need of color gradients that aren't readily available through ArcGIS or the ColorBrewer add-in. I find the process of manually creating gradients in Arc very tedious: saved custom ...
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Mapping Data to Graphical ; three ways of representing objects [duplicate]
Chapter 3 of introduction to Data Mining, on a section about visualization, the paragraph is titled Representation: Mapping Data to Graphical Elements:
Objects are usually represented in one of ...
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Visualize given temperatures on image/map/plane
I am looking for a way to visualize some data of the form :
latitude longitude temperature
as image(s). Have many of these 3-tuple lines uniformly distributed on a region.
Ultimately, I am looking ...
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How can a 3D model of a building be displayed in a web-browser?
I would like to try to show a proposed building in a web-browser such that the user can interact with it in a way similar to google maps streetview. Is it possible to do this, in any platform?
I can ...
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What special property do mathematical functions and physical surfaces have that is appropriate for the case of surface plot?
In the definition of surface plots in my book, (An introduction to data mining, chapter 3) it is said that:
Surface plots are often used to describe mathematical functions or physical surfaces ...
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Visualize shapefile in Python
I was searching the internet to see if it is possible to visualize geographical data in Python, without always opening ArcGIS and make a map (because I have a lot of scripts that uses arcpy). On the ...
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How to drape a simple jpeg image over dem of some area?
How can we drape a simple jpeg image which doesnot have any geo referencing information over the digital elevation model in order to visualize it in 3D in QGIS?
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Why can't I load more than 12 elevation files into NVIZ?
I have a large set of rasters in a GRASS mapset, which I would like to use as frames in an animation, visualizing the raster data as elevation. NVIZ is an obvious tool for this, but I'm having trouble ...
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How to design class breaks for a time series of choropleth maps?
I'm working with a time series of choropleth maps showing the same indicator for the same administrative boundaries, but spanning period of nine years.
What would be the most appropriate strategy of ...
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3D tool for a visual analysis
Given a 3D mesh I need to visualize and analyze properties and elements generated from the object such as:
tensors
coplanar/similar elements ( coplanar faces, aligned vertices, etc etc, 3D geometry ...
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ArcScene 10.1 Orthophoto Visualization Issue
I am attempting to visualize an orthophoto in ArcScene 10.1 at the same resolution it is at in ArcDesktop 10.1. I have set the "Quality enhancement for raster images" to it's highest extent. But, the ...
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Examples of geovisualizations of global connectivity
I stumbled upon interesting visualization of global connectivity patterns:
'Major road and rail networks in Africa, along with transmission line
and underwater cable data.'
(Source, more ...
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Examples of building-level geovisualization
I have recently stumbled upon a presentation and paper by Duncan Smith exploring geovisualization of 2001 area classification of output areas using building level resolution of urban area (London in ...
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How would I draw and visualize custom maps based on OSM data?
I would like to be able to use openstreetmap data for a specific region as a source and "draw" from that the map of infrastructure improvements - mostly roads.
I want it to be self-hosted (not ...
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Is it possible to use symbols instead of colours to visualise raster cell values?
I have a raster image (GeoTIFF) with integer values. I know how to visualise raster values in QGIS using colormaps or similar, but I would like to assign symbols to each colour value instead - just ...
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Why the modifications I do in QGIS doesn't appear when I save an OSM file I created?
Through QGIS I loaded an OSM file I created and I'm trying to visualize what happens with the file in terms of codes after some modifications like adding points, lines or polygons. But the problem is ...
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How to compare two spatial point patterns?
If I have two point pattern distributions within the same geographic region, how would I go about visually and quantitatively comparing those two distributions?
Also assume I have many points within ...
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Another Student in Need of Career Advice
I would like to apologize in advance for asking yet another "what should I do with my life" type of question.
I am currently a senior who is very close to finishing up my B.S. in Information Systems. ...
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Fast data representation on the vector layers
I have found an interesting article about how HTML5 supports representation on large datasets.
Article can be found here. In the article it is said that HTML5 and feature simplification can ...
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What are the main fields of applications of 3D GIS?
I'm doing a scholary research on 3D GIS but i have some problems in finding where they are used. Does anyone know of any real life examples where 3D GIS has been adopted?
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What are the guidelines for the use of non-contiguous cartograms?
The non-contiguous cartogram seems to solve a lot of the area distortions seen with traditional cartograms, while preserving the ability to identify areas by their shape lost with Dorling or Demers ...
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How to present three spatial variables in one map? [closed]
I want to assign 3 category of variables in a single map.
In other words, I have to produce a cartographic visualization of the damage including a legend listing:
damaged surface area in the ...
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Curved point-to-point “route maps”
I have recently been looking at airlines web pages that display their routes departing a certain city to all other cities they service. I would like to be able to create similar curved routes between ...
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Visualization of satellite image - directly in python
Is there any way (a package or what not), to visualize a geotiff image directly in Python? I don't want to use ENVI or ArcGIS or anything else. Thank you in advance.
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Where can I get US snowfall data with day resolution?
I need to visualize the snowfall in the USA for a given time period and city. So you could pick a given day and get a heatmap showing the amount of snowfall at each place in the USA on that day. ...
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Looking for interactive map visualization software that allows user input
I am looking for a software tool that allows to create maps which can be customized by the user later on. To be more concrete: the user should be able to choose different indicators, create his own ...
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How to improve cartographic visualization of overlapping polygons?
I need some advice about how to improve the visualization of cartographic information.
User can select different species and the webmapping app shows its geographical distribution (polygonal degree ...
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High quality public transport trip planner examples? Trip visualization examples?
Do you know high-quality online public transport route/trip planners? I'm looking for sites with recognized usability, most carrier-owned planners are bad or very bad from Human-Computer Interaction ...
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How to properly Drape vectors over a DEM?
I have a DEM of my study area, and the streams in it.
Whenever I add both to ArcScene, and drape the vectors over the DEM, some of the vectors disappear from over the surface, and are visible under ...
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How to speed up the process of vector data visualization for a web application
I have a GIS web application and vector data that is going from the model to the web application. For developing the User Interface I am using JavaScript and OpenLayers. But sometimes the amount of ...
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Visualisation using simple plotting routines or advanced GIS packages?
When I have geographic data to be displayed, I usually use a plotting library to visualise the data, for example, combining matplotlib and basemap, or using the Matlab Mapping toolbox. For example, I ...
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GIS mapping software for visualizing and publishing maps [closed]
Currently I am writing my Bachelor thesis and for testing purposes I need software where I can visualize and publish maps and put vector data (point, line, polygon) on them. Can anybody recommend such ...
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Limit Zooming Geometry Features in OpenLayers
I draw flag feature on my map as follows:
myVectorLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Flag Geometry", {
renderers: renderer,
isBaseLayer: true,
projection: new OpenLayers.Projection("EPSG:900913"),
...
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Visualizing large datasets with Leaflet
When using Leaflet to visualize a large dataset (GeoJSON with 10,000 point features), not surprisingly the browser crashes or hangs. A sub-sample of 1000 features from the same dataset works ...
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What are some 3D visualisation tools that successfully work with GIS data?
There are a large number of 3d modelling tools available (both open and closed source). I would like to be able to:
Import GIS data into a 3d environment and retain georeferenceing.
Retain the ...
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How to emulate this grayscale basemap look+feel in Google Maps
I love the design on the Development Seed homepage, where they've used a grayscale basemap with bold 3D-style graphic markers.
It appears that they've used the ModestMaps API to create a tiled ...
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How to implement value-by-alpha map in GIS?
I've been doing some background reading about cartograms recently and stumbled upon interesting alternative - value-by-alpha maps.
Concept is described in more details here and full paper is ...
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How to create spatial tag clouds or “tag maps”?
I'm looking for implementations of spatial tag clouds or "tag maps". Some papers I found talk about a Yahoo Tag Maps API, but I couldn't find any such thing.
I'd prefer OpenLayers-based solutions, ...
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How to visualize azimuthal data with uncertainties?
I am trying to make a figure showing azimuthal data with a different range of uncertainties at each point. This oldschool figure from a 1991 paper captures the "bowtie plot" idea that I'm aiming for:
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Display Rectangular Data Grid
I'd like a Linux program which displays ASCII ArcGrid files (NxM rectangular ASCII data grids which may have either integer or floating point values). There is no practical upper or lower limit to ...
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Visualization libraries for rendering 3D GIS world on iOS/Android
Are there any good 3D libraries/frameworks for rendering 3D worlds in geospatial coordinates on mobile platforms?
Use case: I have some known 3D geospatial features (eg. buildings) with their ...
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How to adjust the granularity of a heat map in QGIS?
Not sure I am using the correct terminology here, so I have tried to describe my problem in detail. Please edit as needed.
I have a layer of points, a layer of roads and a heat map in a raster layer. ...
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Best practices for visualizing speed
Imagine you're tracking, for example, vehicle or animal movement and receive regular GPS position updates. How would you visualize speed of movement on a static (= printable) map? I've been coloring ...
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Is there any experience using Computer Games to display GIS data?
besides being a GIS use I'm a big computer game fan.
Games like Civilization, Minecraft, World at War and many others have a very powerfull engine to display huge maps in a beutifull way. I was ...
