Historisch overzicht van de manieren om te navigeren toen er van moderne technologie nog geen sprake was. Daarnaast wordt het observeren van natuurkundige verschijnselen uiteengezet om tot een goede navigatie te komen.
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) - either as 'standard' GIS or custom made Historical GIS (HGIS) - have become quite popular in some historical sub-disciplines, such as Economic and Social History or Historical Geography. 'Mainstream' history, however, seems to be rather u…
Location Science
This comprehensive and clearly structured book presents essential information on modern Location Science. The book is divided into three parts: basic concepts, advanced concepts and applications. Written by the most respected specialists in the field and thoroughly reviewed by t…
Sophisticated interactive maps are increasingly used to explore information - guiding us through data landscapes to provide information and prompt insight and understanding. Geovisualization is an emerging domain that draws upon disciplines such as computer science, human-comput…
Map Construction Algorithms
by Pfoser, Dieter, Ahmed, Mahmuda, Karagiorgou, Sophia, Wenk, Carola
The book provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of map construction algorithms, which use tracking data in the form of trajectories to generate vector maps. The most common trajectory type is GPS-based trajectories. It introduces three emerging algorithmic categories, outl…