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Web Mapping and Web Cartography

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Encyclopedia of GIS

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Electronic atlases; Maps on internet; Mobile maps; SVG; Web technologies; CGI; Web server; Web application server; Web mapping server; WMS

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Web mapping is the process of designing, implementing, generating and delivering maps on the World Wide Web. While web mapping primarily deals with technological issues, web cartography additionally studies theoretic aspects: the use of web maps, the evaluation and optimization of techniques and workflows, the usability of web maps, social aspects, and more. Web GIS or Internet GIS is related to web mapping but with an emphasis on analysis, processing of project specific geodata as well as exploratory aspects. Often the terms web GIS and web mapping are used synonymously, even if they don't mean the same. In fact the boundary between web maps and web GIS is blurry. Web maps are often a presentation media in web GIS and web maps are increasingly gaining analytical capabilities. A special case of web maps are mobile maps,...

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  1. Institute of Cartography, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Andreas Neumann

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Shashi Shekhar (McKnight Distinguished University Professor) (McKnight Distinguished University Professor)

  2. Management Science and Information Systems Department, Rutgers Business School Newark and New Brunswick Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, 07102, USA

    Hui Xiong (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

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Neumann, A. (2008). Web Mapping and Web Cartography. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35973-1_1485

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