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A variety of different projects makes it possible to develop fullfunctional web GIS-applications. Nowadays most of these projects focus on one specific part of a system (e.g. a map-engine, scripts for datavisualization etc). Although certain GIS projects concentrate on the development of web-interfaces, some problems arise (e.g. consistencyproblems) when these projects are compiled and modified to fit a certain context. Furthermore the development of a system according to Human Computer Interaction (HCI) guidelines involves the participation of the end-user at almost all stages of the process. This chapter describes the adaptation of HCI guidelines during the development of a specific web-GIS application, based on open source-GIS projects: an interactive system for wine cultivation in the Swiss canton of Vaud. Based on this work, some design suggestions for developers of web - GIS projects are presented.
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Ingensand, J. (2006). Developing Web-GIS Applications According to HCI Guidelines: The Viti-Vaud Project. In: Stefanakis, E., Peterson, M.P., Armenakis, C., Delis, V. (eds) Geographic Hypermedia. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-34238-0_23
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