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simple as pressing a green or red button after using a visualisation. This final point speaks
to the need for a greater degree of coordination among researchers and a more systematic
approach to evaluation and for these to be established as community norms rather than
exceptions. Until the community itself rises to the challenge as a strong priority, this prob-
lem will not be solved.
5.8 FURTHER READINGS
For those interested in the perceptual aspects of visualisation, the work of Mackinlay or Treisman is
a good place to start. An excellent primer is the topic
Perceptual Issues in Visualisation
(Grinstein
and Levkowitz, 1995), and MacEachren's (1995)
How Maps Work
gives considerable depth to
the cognitive and semiotic aspects of visual perception. A more computational perspective can
be gleaned from
Scientific Visualisation: Advanced Software Techniques
(Palamidese, 1993).
There are by now many journal special issues and workshop proceedings that provide a useful
snapshot of the GeoViz research (http://geoanalytics.net/ica/ provides a useful repository and help-
ful links).
Thematic Cartography and Geovisualisation
by Slocum et al
.
(2008) provides excellent
and approachable coverage of many of the basics of GeoViz.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Most of the GeoViz examples shown here are derived from software created at the GeoVISTA
Center, Penn State University (http://www.geovista.psu.edu/); the author is eternally grateful to
many past and current colleagues there for their excellent work and enthusiasm for GeoViz tools
and methods.
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