Eye-tracking in map use, map user and map usability research: what are we looking for?

Orographic Control of Precipitation: What are We Learning from MAP?

The first four words of the title of this article match the title of Section 4 of Ron Smith’s (1979) review, “The Influence of Mountains on the Atmosphere”. Via a comprehensive survey of the literature available 25 years ago, Smith identified the key ways in which mountains potentially can affect precipitation. Little has changed regarding his conclusions. However, little factual information wa...

Advanced Map Optimalization Based on Eye-Tracking

Editorial 1 Some Directions for Map 2 Orographic Control of Precipitation: What Are We Learning from Map? 3

1 Some directions for MAP 2 Orographic Control of Precipitation: What are We Learning from MAP? 3 Alpine Numerical Weather Prediction 2000-2020: A Look Back to the Future 6 SOP 2000 — A better choice? 13 Mesoscale Alpine Climate (MAC) 15 “FACT” — Forecasting in Alpine and Complex Terrain 17 Summary of the final SSC and CIG Meetings 20 MAP Data Centre Status 22 MAP newsletter #15 24 Ongoing Acti...

User Hints for Map Labelling

The Map Labelling Problem appears in several applications, mainly in Cartography. Although much research on this problem has been done, it is interesting to note that map-labelling processes in commercial fields are very often executed manually or with little support of automatic tools. In general, practical map-labelling problems involve human subjective domain knowledge about label placement ...

Introducing Usability Heuristics for Mobile Map Applications

In this paper, a set of heuristics for evaluating the usability of mobile map applications is introduced. We developed the heuristics by exploring the present generic heuristics and then forming new theory-based heuristics. Usability specialists tested the heuristics by evaluating the usability of a mobile map application with both generic and domain-specific heuristics. As a result, more usabi...