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Development of Multimedia

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Multimedia Cartography

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This Chapter outlined the development of the ideas and ‘tools’ necessary to allow publishers, including cartographers, to produce maps using interactive multimedia. Other delivery mechanisms were described, from microfiche to computer games, as alternative media for geographic information delivery. The distribution of these products is effected by the use of discrete media like CD-ROM or videodisc or through the use of the Internet or Intranets. Typical products developed using multimedia and hypermedias were outlined and the profiles of the different types of titles produced for the different new media types have been described.

Map producers and map users alike should revel in what multimedia offers. Multimedia is the matchmaker between the logical world of computers and the abstract world of video. Cartographers, already attuned to dealing with multimedia in terms of atlases and mapping packages that contain a plethora of map tools, are well placed to exploit the medium. It offers the cartographer the means of dynamic displays, high interaction and direct access to the database. The challenge for map designers and producers is to use multimedia, in its broadest sense, as a new tool for cartography.

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Cartwright, W. (2007). Development of Multimedia. In: Cartwright, W., Peterson, M.P., Gartner, G. (eds) Multimedia Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36651-5_2

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