The document discusses interactive maps, which are web-based or desktop maps that allow users to click points of interest for additional information. Interactive maps can visualize geospatial data, toggle layers, produce personalized maps, and support various geo-data formats. They are useful for weather maps, news maps, real-time maps, and more. The document outlines the process of making interactive maps and how to use their zooming and recentering features. It also describes temporal and non-temporal map animation and applications of interactive maps in real estate, travel, education, thematic mapping, and spatial analysis.

1. Interactive Map
Date: 2073/10/22
Presented By:
Madan Acharya
Spatial Data Infrastructure

2. Introduction
•An interactive map is a web
based map or desktop map
that has clickable points. When
clicked, these points show an
informational box that has text
about the point, pictures,
videos as well as links to
external sites.

3. Components of Cartographic Interaction

4. Key Features
• visualizes geospatial data in a familiar
interface
• scale free
• are designed to be viewed online, but users
can often download the maps as images or
PDFs for offline use.
• Toggle layers on/off i.e. selective display.
• Produce a personalized map.
• Backgrounds
• Overlay operations
• Supports various formats of geo-data such

5. Key Examples
•Weather Maps
•News Maps
•Real Time Maps

6. Process of making interactive map
1. Collection/Development of data
to be visualized.
2. Arrange the data.
3. Visualize the data using different
software as interactive map.
(Numerous softwares are

7. How to use interactive map
• Zoom in on the map: Select this button
and click on the map. The place were you
click will become the center of the new map
showing a smaller area.
• Zoom out of the map: Select this
button and click on the map. The place
were you click will become the center of the
new map showing a larger area.
• Recenter the map: Select this button
and click on the map. The place were you
click will become the center of the new map

8. Map Animation
• Map animations is the
application of animation,
either computer or video, to
add a temporal component to
a map displaying change in
some dimension.
•Most commonly the change is
shown over time, generally at

10. Types of Map Animation
1.Temporal Animation: Temporal
shows the ongoing gradual
changes over time. Temporal
maps can also be termed as
animated timeline maps and can
be a useful reference to examine
the changes ongoing on each
step and analyze the progression

11. Example

12. Non-Temporal Animation:
2. Non-Temporal Animation
shows changes against some
other variables other than time.
The variable might be place,
position, generalization level
etc.

13. Example

14. Use/Apps of interactive map
• Real Estate Sector
• Travel & Tourism Sector
• Information & Teaching
• Thematic Mapping
• Visualization and Communication
Eg: Weather, news
• Spatial (location) analysis

15. References
•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ani
mated_mapping (1/14/2017),
•https://upload.wikimedia.org/wiki
pedia/commons/4/4d/Linguistic_
map_Southwestern_Europe.gif
(1/14/2017).
•http://giphy.com/gifs/map-
Y1txCX0oacq7C (1/14/2017).
•http://threescale.com/interactive-