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State-of-the-art of Tactile Hyperglobes

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This article focuses on the successor of virtual globes namely tactile hyperglobes. These tactile hyperglobes allow – as opposed to the two dimensional representation of Geo-Browsers (e.g. Google Earth, Virtual Earth,…) – the earth’s presentation in her natural and three-dimensional appearance. This makes it easier for the user to link the information on the globe to the reality that the globe is representing. The Department of Geography and Regional Research of the University of Vienna invested in the beginning of 2005 in a tactile hyperglobe. Therefore this department is the first European research facility which focused research activities on the visualization of global topics under the use of spherical displays. On the one hand this paper will give insight in advantages and disadvantages of different types of tactile hyperglobes from a technical perspective and on the other hand introduces the functionality of OmniSuite, software dedicated to tactile hyperglobes.

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    Andreas Riedl

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    Manfred Buchroithner

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Riedl, A. (2011). State-of-the-art of Tactile Hyperglobes. In: Buchroithner, M. (eds) True-3D in Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12272-9_14

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