Essays about: "web maps"

Showing result 16 - 20 of 64 essays containing the words web maps.

  1. 16. Exchange of Tracking Information on a Shared Platform - How the space of interaction can be designed to increase practitioners' motivation in physical activity outdoors

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Melinda Danielsson; [2018]
    Keywords : Geographic; Maps; Web; Platform; Interaction; Tracking; Physical; Activity; Walking; Running; Motivation; Human; Social; Behavior; Network; Comparative; Supportive;

    Abstract : Interactive technology in the area of fitness and wellbeing has gained increasing interest in the HCI community with the emphasize to design technologies and tools in the aim to encourage people and make them more engaged in physical activity. However, there is little investigation in which precise factors that contribute to user motivation and self-efficacy. READ MORE

  3. 17. Incorporating GIS in urban planning : Quantifying accessibility to sociotopic user values for use in urban planning and citizen dialogue – a case study of Årstafältet, Stockholm.

    University essay from KTH/Geoinformatik

    Author : Anna Nordlöv; [2018]
    Keywords : GIS; Urban planning; Urban design; Citizen dialogue; Bivariate maps; Web-GIS; Network distance; Sociotope;

    Abstract : There exists a debate regarding where to build new housing in increasingly denser cities today. Often it is the green spaces that must be sacrificed which lead to conflicts among decision makers and citizens. Although, some sources claim (Byrne et al. READ MORE

  4. 18. An open source web GIS tool for analysis and visualization of elephant GPS telemetry data, alongside environmental and anthropogenic variables

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Patrick Kabatha; [2018]
    Keywords : geography; GIS; web GIS; web mapping; open source; wildlife; elephant; ecology; time series; GPS telemetry; Biology and Life Sciences; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : The movement and distribution of ecologically important herbivores such as elephants are of great significance to conservation biologist seeking to understand the fundamental triggers that influence their mobility and the extent to which these parameters affect how they utilize their immediate and surrounding resources. The recent advancement in animal tracking technology coupled with the availability of moderate to high-resolution satellite data, permits scientists to develop elephant cognitive maps of their adjacent environment, thus offering novel opportunities for research in the fields of wildlife movement ecology and the wider conservation biology. READ MORE

  5. 19. Developing Data Extraction and Dynamic Data Visualization (Styling) Modules for Web GIS Risk Assessment System (WGRAS)

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap

    Author : Daniel Assefa; [2018]
    Keywords : Geographical Information Systems; GIS; Disaster Risk Management; web GIS; Volunteered Geographic Information VGI ; Map Visualization and styling; Geo-spatial data extraction; OpenStreetMap OSM ; Earth and Environmental Sciences;

    Abstract : Interactive web-GIS tools play an important role in determining disaster risk assessment which ultimately result in reduction of unexpected damages, cost and saves millions of lives. Disaster management practitioners largely benefited information at their disposal about location where possible incidents are eminent, anticipate the impact and project possible outcomes to help mitigate and organize proper response. READ MORE

  6. 20. BabylonJS and Three.js : Comparing performance when it comes to rendering Voronoi height maps in 3D

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för datavetenskap och medieteknik (DM)

    Author : Axel Karlsson; Oscar Nordquist; [2018]
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    Abstract : WebGL is a technique that allows the browser to run 3D applications with the help of the GPU. Voronoi diagrams are a set of polygons that can be used to illustrate worlds of islands. In an web-application using Voronoi Polygons to create two dimensional worlds there is a future vision to enable three dimensional behavior. READ MORE