orinstanceproducedbysensors,nowavailableviatheWeb(Cartwrightetal.;KraakandBrown;Peterson).Mapsarenolongerjustamediumtodisplayfinalresults.Mapsareusedanywhereinthegeospatialdatahandlingprocess.Additionally,technologicaldevelopmentshavebroughtmappingclosertootherdisciplines,whichhaveinfluencedtheapproachtomapping.Interactionanddynamicsbecameimportantkeywords.Inthes,developmentsaroundscientificvisualization(McCormicketal.)havegiventhewordvisualizationanenhancedmeaning.Thesehavelinkedvisualizationtomorespecificwaysinwhichmoderncomputertechnologyfacilitatestheprocessof‘‘makingdatavisible’’inrealtimeinordertostrengthenknowledge.TherelationsbetweenmappingandGISontheonehand,andscientificvisualizationontheotherhavebeendiscussedindepthby(HearnshawandUnwin;Taylor;MacEachrenandTaylor).Inadditiontoscientificvisualization,whichdealsmainlywithmedicalimaging不是集成在地理空间数据处理链。
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