Combining the real world and abstract visualization Stuart Dunn Centre for e-Research King’s College London VizNet conference Loughborough, 8th May 2008

Key issues > Descriptive semantics > Underlying assumptions > Integration of space and time > Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…)

Descriptive semantics

‘ We cannot take control of a disciplinary vocabulary and impose it on other researchers. We are are not all logicists. I am certainly not a logicist, and I never will be.’ Descriptive semantics

Descriptive semantics Ecotricity wind turbine, Reading

Underlying assumptions

Underlying assumptions Google Earth  [v. 4.2 (beta)] Berkshire [v. 1.0] Ecotricity Asda, Lower Earley

Underlying assumptions

Integration of space and time

Integration of space and time

Integration of space and time

Geographical Information Systems: (vector) GIS Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…) e.g. roads, rivers e.g. places e.g. countries, territories etc

Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…)

Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…)

Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…) Map 5.6 (NB: insets not to scale)

Integration of multiple datasets (source, scale, provenance, etc…)