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LarsHarrie

Lars Harrie

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LarsHarrie

Evaluation of Analytical Measures of Map Legibility

Author

  • Hanna Stigmar
  • Lars Harrie

Summary, in English

The generation of maps in real-time web-services introduces challenges concerning map legibility. As these services lack the important input of a traditional cartographer, analytical measures of the legibility are called for. The aim of this study was to develop such legibility measures, and to evaluate them with the help of expert users. Measures of the amount of information, spatial distribution and object complexity were developed and evaluated. The results indicated that some of the measures could be used to describe map legibility.

Department/s

  • Centre for Geographical Information Systems (GIS Centre)
  • Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
  • eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

41-53

Publication/Series

Cartographic Journal

Volume

48

Issue

1

Document type

Article

Publisher

Maney Publishing

Topic

  • Physical Geography

Keywords

  • cartography
  • legibility
  • analytical measures
  • expert user tests

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0008-7041