Dynamic display of spatial data-reliability: Does it benefit the map user?

• Published in: Computers & geosciences Vol. 23; no. 4; pp. 409 - 422
• Main Author: Evans, Beverley J.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 01.05.1997
• Subjects: Cartography; Dynamic cartography; GIS; Reliability; Visualization; GIS; Cartography; Visualization; Reliability; Dynamic cartography

As users of maps we are dependent upon their veracity and by extension the reliability of the data they contain. Several research projects have explored possible methods of visually representing data certainty, a kind of metadata; methods considered include depicting the metadata as a map that is se...