Choosing Tools: Nine Metaphors of Four-Dimensional Cartography
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https://doi.org/10.14714/CP05.1122Keywords:
animated maps, four-dimensional mapping, 4DAbstract
Animated maps are now technically and economically feasible. Like other forms of cartography, map animation has some unique design considerations, which involve a variety of tradeoffs. Making these tradeoff decisions is easier if we acknowledge that different animation software packages seem to embody a number of different perspectives - a 'flipbook' style of animation, for example, is suited to different tasks than a 'stage-and-actor' or a 'model-and-camera' program. This paper contrasts nine different animation metaphors, with special attention to the degree to which a given tool allows a cartographer to make particular kinds of revisions.Downloads
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1990-03-01
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Gersmehl, P. J. (1990). Choosing Tools: Nine Metaphors of Four-Dimensional Cartography. Cartographic Perspectives, (05), 3–16. https://doi.org/10.14714/CP05.1122
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