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Off-Road and All-Terrain Vehicles, Including Snowmobiling
This chapter first defines off-road and all-terrain vehicles, including snowmobile, and gives illustrated examples of a range of such vehicles. It...
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The Sound of Being There: Audiovisual Cartography with Immersive Virtual Environments
In recent years, immersion has become a frequently emphasized factor in the geovisualization research agenda. A principal reason for this growing...
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Models of Revitalisation and Enhancement of Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Use
Models of revitalisation and enhancement of cultural heritage were studied through the Heritage Urbanism approach. A total of 17 models were...
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Towards an Audio-Locative Mobile Application for Immersive Storytelling
We live in an age in which digital media is omnipresent and augmented reality is beginning to find its way into our everyday lives, GPS allows us to...
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Potenziale der Raumvisualisierung in Virtual Reality (VR) für die sozialkonstruktivistische Landschaftsforschung
In approaches of social constructivist landscape research, “landscape” is not addressed in an objective way. From this perspective, the knowledge of...
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Map** Urban Soundscapes via Citygram
In this paper we summarize efforts in exploring non-ocular spatio-temporal energies through strategies that focus on the collection, analysis,...
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Lake District Soundscapes: Analysing Aural Experience Through Text
The importance of perception across all the senses has been recognised in previous studies on landscape preferences. Here, we focus on aural...
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Virtual Reality (VR) and Open Source Software: A Workflow for Constructing an Interactive Cartographic VR Environment to Explore Urban Landscapes
In recent years, hardware and software innovations in the computer and video game industries have established affordable Virtual Reality (VR) systems...
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Beacon Virtua: A Virtual Reality Simulation Detailing the Recent and Shipwreck History of Beacon Island, Western Australia
Beacon Virtua is a project to document and virtually preserve a historically significant offshore island as a virtual reality experience. In 1629,...
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Listen Through the Map
Throughout history, cartographic representations have been employed as medium to collect, describe and comprehend the spatial relationships between...
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Ansätze der Erfassung und kartographischen Präsentation der olfaktorischen Dimension
Profound changes in geosciences, where research results are traditionally presented in maps, have influenced cartography. Numerous map themes exist...
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The Ecumenical ‘Right to the City’: Urban Commons and Intersectional Enclosures in Athens and Istanbul
In recent years, discussions about urban commons and new enclosures have revolved mainly around the Marxist notion of ‘accumulation by...
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Einsatz audio-visueller Karten in der Schule — Eine Unterrichtsidee zum Strukturwandel im Ruhrgebiet
In order to support a more intensive analysis of map contents in geography classes, the method “lebendige Karte” was developed and established in...
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Formats of Extended Urbanisation in Ocean Space
Rather than painting a picture of the urban planet with generalised brushstrokes, planetary urbanization calls for critical, localised studies that...
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Introduction to Seeing Cities Through Big Data: Research, Methods and Applications in Urban Informatics
The chapters in this book were first presented in a 2-day workshop on Big Data and Urban Informatics held at the University of Illinois at Chicago in...
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Increasing the Density of Local Landmarks in Wayfinding Instructions for the Visually Impaired
Multiple approaches to support non-visual navigation have been proposed, of which traditional auditory turn-by-turn navigational systems achieved...
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Interaktive Multimediakartographie in frühen Videospielwelten — Das Beispiel „Super Mario World”
From the late 1970s onwards, first video gome consoles were developed and released for home entertainment. Gamers were invited to deal with new...
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Vom analogen Atlas zum cloud-basierten Atlassing
Using the example of atlases, this paper discusses the transition from analog to digital map**. Section 1 and 2 will cover the main concepts, i.e....
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An initial analysis of design parameters affecting the interpretation of noise maps: Insights gained in empirical research
In the course of the development of a colour scheme for representing noise immission in maps the author has conducted a series of analyses and user...