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Florence: A web-based grammar of graphics for making maps and learning cartography / Ate Poorthuis in Cartographic perspectives, n° 96 (December 2020)  

Public [article]  inCartographic perspectives > n° 96 (December 2020) . - pp 32 - 50 Titre : Florence: A web-based grammar of graphics for making maps and learning cartography Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ate Poorthuis, Auteur ; Lucas van der Zee, Auteur ; Grace Guo, Auteur ; et al., Auteur Année de publication : 2020 Article en page(s) : pp 32 - 50 Note générale : bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] cartographie par internet [Termes IGN] conception cartographique [Termes IGN] formation [Termes IGN] géovisualisation [Termes IGN] implémentation (informatique) [Termes IGN] représentation cartographique [Termes IGN] sémiologie graphique [Termes IGN] visualisation cartographique [Termes IGN] visualisation de données [Termes IGN] web mapping [Vedettes matières IGN] Géovisualisation Résumé : (auteur) Online, web-based cartography workflows use a dizzying variety of software suites, libraries, and programming languages. This proliferation of mapmaking technologies, often developed from a software engineering rather than a cartographic foundation, creates a series of challenges for cartography education, research, and practice. To address these challenges, we introduce a JavaScript-based open-source framework for web-based cartography and data visualization. It is built on top of existing open web standards that are already in intensive use for online mapmaking today, but provides a framework that is firmly based on cartographic and visualization theory rather than software engineering concepts. Specifically, we adopt concepts from Bertin’s Semiology of Graphics and Wilkinson’s Grammar of Graphics to create a language with a limited number of core concepts and verbs that are combined in a declarative style of “writing” visualizations. In this paper, we posit a series of design guidelines that have informed our approach, and discuss how we translate these tenets into a software implementation and framework with specific use cases and examples. We frame the development of the software and the discussion specifically in the context of the use of such tools in cartography education. With this framework, we hope to provide an example of a software for web-based data visualization that is in sync with cartographic theories and objectives. Such approaches allow for potentially greater cartographic flexibility and creativity, as well as easier adoption in cartography courses. Numéro de notice : A2021-123 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article DOI : 10.14714/CP96.1645 Date de publication en ligne : 02/12/2020 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.14714/CP96.1645 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=99306 [article]