Meta-Information Visualization in Geographic Information Display Systems

J. Pfautz, A. Bisantz, E. Roth, A. Fouse, and K. Shuster

Proceedings of SID '05, Boston, MA (May, 2005)

This paper describes the development of techniques in Geographic Information Systems to support the visualization of “meta-information” – qualifiers of incoming data that significantly influence a user’s perception of that data (e.g., uncertainty, recency, source). We present a brief literature review and discuss specific issues with the representation of meta-information.

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