Introduction This paper provides...

Introduction

This paper provides a preliminary typology of interactivity appropriate for geographic visualization (GVis or geovisualization). Geovisualization arose from efforts in the 1980 to scientifically visualize the large whirls of data then emerging from space-based far sensing platforms and other data collection devices (McCormick et al. 1987) As applied by way of cartographers and geographers, visualization in scientific computing (ViSC) initially was expanded to explicitly include human point in dispute solving:

"Geographic visualization will be defined here as the use of coagulate
visual representations--whether upon paper or through computer displays or
other media--to make spatial adjoining matters and problems visible, so as to
engage