Over 120 authors from 14 countries share their work through extended abstracts and associated presentations, all of which is organized into seven thematic tracts.
- Map Design and Foundations
- Map Innovations
- Spatial Data and Mapping Workflows
- Computation and Spatial Analytics
- Web Mapping and Collaborative GIS
- Visualization and Visual Analytics
- Hazard Identification, Perception, and Management
1. Map design and foundations
Interactive & Multiscale Thematic Maps: Preliminary Results from an Empirical Study
By Robert Roth, Meghan Kelly, Nick Underwood, Nick Lally, Xinyi Liu, Kristen Vincent, and Carl Sack
Bio | Slides | Video
A Quantitative Approach to Developing Cartographic Design Guidelines
By Aileen Buckley
Bio | Slides | Video
A Map Is a Living Structure with the Recurring Notion of Far More Smalls than Larges
By Bin Jiang and Terry Slocum
Bio | Slides | Video
WhereNext: Towards a Cartographic Framework for Movement
By Somayeh Dodge
Bio | Slides | Video
Evaluating Different Cartographic Design Variants for Visually Communicating Route Efficiency
By Stefan Fuest, Susanne Grüner, Mark Vollrath, and Monika Sester
Bio | Slides | Video
2. Map innovations
Dual Naming as a Mechanism to Recognize Multiple Identities: Casablanca or Ad-Dār al-Bayḍā
By Malak Alasli
Bio | Slides | Video
Towards Cartographic Knowledge Encoding with Deep Learning: A Case Study of Building Generalization
By Yuhao Kang, Jinmeng Rao, Wei Wang, Bo Peng, Song Gao, and Fan Zhang
Bio | Slides | Video
Optimising Road Selection for Small-scale Maps Using Decision Tree-based Models
By Izabela Karsznia, Karolina Sielicka, and Robert Weibel
Bio | Slides | Video
3. Spatial data and mapping workflows
Active Learning Approach to Record Linking in Large Geodatasets
By Alexandre Sorokine, Jason Kaufman, Jesse Piburn, and Robert Stewart
Bio | Slides | Video
Interaction Dynamics for Crowdsourced Obstacle Data
By Matthew Rice, Kevin Curtin, and Manzhu Yu
Bio | Slides | Video
Volunteered Geographic Information Users Contributions Pattern and its Impact on Information Quality
By Amir Masoud Forati and Rina Ghose
Bio | Slides | Video
Working Towards Multi-scale Database Updating
By Dan Lee and Mark Wigley
Bio | Slides | Video
Workflows and Spatial Analysis in the Age of GeoBlockchain: A Land Ownership Example
By Constantinos Papantoniou and Brian Hilton
Bios | Slides | Video
A Spatial Model to Generate High-resolution Projections of U.S. State-level Population for Coupled Human-environment Analysis
By Hamidreza Zoraghein and Brian O’Neill
Bio | Slides | Video
A Geospatially-enabled Student Data Management System (Geo-SDMS): A Case Study of Yemen
By Ali Bazaraha and Brian Hilton
Bio | Slides | Video
National Terrain Data Management on Discrete Global Grids in Canada
By Mingke Li, Emmanuel Stefanakis, and Heather McGrath
Bio | Slides | Video
4. Computation and spatial analytics for mapping
Mapping World Terrestrial Ecosystems – GIS and Cartographic Approaches
By Roger Sayre, Madeline Martin, Deniz Karagulle, Charlie Frye, Timothy Boucher, and Nicholas Wolff
Bio | Slides | Video
LiDAR Data Segmentation using Deep Learning for Indoor Mapping
By Enbo Zhou, Keith Clarke, Haoyu Shi, and Bryn Morgan
Bio |Slides | Video
Spatio-temporal Data Streaming with Affinity Propagation
By Nasrin E. Ivaria, Monica Wachowicz, Tamara Agnew, and Patricia A.H. Williams
Bio | Slides | Video
Improving the Positional and Vertical Accuracy of Named Summits above 13,000 ft in the United States
By Samantha Arundel, Gaurav Sinha, and Arthur Chan
Bio | Slides | Video
An Integrated Open Source Desktop GIS for Population Mapping
By Yong Guan, Yang Zhong, Shaohua Wang, Chenpu Hu, and Erqi Wang
Bio | Slides | Video
Mapping Temporal Trends of Parent-Child Migration from Population-Scale Family Trees
By Caglar Koylu and Alice Kasakoff
Bio | Slides | Video
Understanding the Spatial Dimension of Women’s Homelessness
By Hafsa K. Aasi and Yoonmi Lee
Bio | Slides | Video
Classification of Remotely Sensed Images using Deep Learning and Multiresolution Analysis
By Rizwan Ahmed Ansaria, Rakesh Malhotra, and Krishna Mohan Buddhiraju
Bio | Slides | Video
Landmarks as Beacons: Pedestrian Navigation Based on Landmark Detection and Mobile Augmented Reality
By Jinmeng Rao, Song Gao, Yuhao Kang, and Qingyun Du
Bio | Slides | Video
5. Web mapping and collaborative GIS
Immersive Web-based Classification Correction of Point Cloud Data
By Thomas J. Pingel and Hudson Chase
Bio | Slides | Video
An Interactive Web-based GIS System for the Space-time Visualization of Groundwater Quality from Private Wells
By Yu Lan and Eric Delmelle
Bio | Slides | Video
Applying Semantic Web to USGS TNM Data
By Matthew Wagner, Tanner Fry, and Jacques Bourquin
Bio | Slides | Video
Using a Collaborative GIS for Supporting Maritime Spatial Planning Courses
By Mikko Rönneberg, Christian Koski, Juha Oksanen, Andrea Morf, Per Nilsson, Harri Tolvanen, Sonja Salovius-Laurén, and Pyry Kettunen
Bio | Slides | Video
6. Visualization and visual analytics
Reconstructing Bird’s Eye View using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Data
By Abhasha Joshi
Bio | Slides | Video
Analysing Construction Cost Estimation Factors as a Map
By Kambiz Borna, Duaa Alshadli, and Antoni Moore
Bio | Slides | Video
Visualizing Uncertainty Metrics Across Multiple Attribute Resolutions
By Kate Carlson, Barbara P. Buttenfield, and Yi Qiang
Bio | Slides | Video
7. Hazard identification, perception, and management
Identifying Vulnerabilities in Multilayer Spatial Networks: A Case Study of Food Flows in The United States
By Bin Zhang and Caglar Koylu
Bio | Slides | Video
Fires in the Cerrado Biome (Brazil), Between 1999 and 2018
By Maíra Iaê S. Rocha and Diego Tarley F. Nascimento
Bio | Slides | Video
Algorithmic Information Dynamics of Climate Risk in Supply Chain Management
By Colten Lawrence Zacharias, Nigel Xavier Robinson, and Hamza Tahir Chaudhry
Bio | Slides | Video
Using Computer Models, Big Data, and GIS to Improve Community Wildfire Evacuation Planning
By Dapeng Li
Bio | Slides | Video
Flight or Driving? Mining and Exploring Evacuation Behaviors During 2017 Hurricane Harvey
By Chenxiao (Atlas) Guo and Qunying Huang
Bio | Slides | Video
An Evaluation of COVID-19 Dashboards from Cartographic and Epidemiological Perspectives
By Kwang il Yoo and Barry J. Kronenfeld
Bio | Slides | Video
How Do People Perceive the Disclosure Risk of Maps? Examining the Perceived Disclosure Risk of Maps and its Implications for Geoprivacy Protection
By Junghwan Kim, Mei-Po Kwan, Margaret C. Levenstein, and Douglas B. Richardson
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Space-time Variation in Shelter Accessibility in Eastern North Carolina Following Hurricane Florence (2018)
By Eric Delmelle, Gregory Docekal, Wenwu Tang, Matthew Eastin, and Yu Lan
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