AquaMap added a new way to display the map.
The objective is to "expand your horizons".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNVi9zdho9g
http://globalaquamaps.com/AquaHV.html
The main issue moving from paper to digital cartography, it's well known, is represented by the small screen size. Unavoidably we have to sacrify the detail vs the overview and viceversa.
In the past, you had 2 or 3 different scale paper charts placed on the table for the same area and your eye was able to pass very quickly from one to the other without losing the focus.
Today all mapping applications implemented a variety of tools (pan, zoom, split-screen, etc.) to increase the map's usability and readibility, tring to reduce the impact of the above issue.
All the solutions implemented so far helped a lot but: sacrifing the detail vs the overview and creating partial, discontinuous and distorted views along the change scale border.
mapXpan is a patented system to fix it once for all.
mapXpan shows simultaneously charts at different scales integrated to mantain the focus at the higher level of detail, ensuring seamless in the object display, including a full overview and a visualization at glance similar to the traditional paper charts.
It is composed by a portion (usually central) of the screen in plan view at the preferred zoom level and a number of concentric sloped frames with decreasing scale towards the screen border.
mapXpan extends your horizon.
description continues at
http://globalaquamaps.com/AquaHV.html
The objective is to "expand your horizons".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNVi9zdho9g
http://globalaquamaps.com/AquaHV.html
The main issue moving from paper to digital cartography, it's well known, is represented by the small screen size. Unavoidably we have to sacrify the detail vs the overview and viceversa.
In the past, you had 2 or 3 different scale paper charts placed on the table for the same area and your eye was able to pass very quickly from one to the other without losing the focus.
Today all mapping applications implemented a variety of tools (pan, zoom, split-screen, etc.) to increase the map's usability and readibility, tring to reduce the impact of the above issue.
All the solutions implemented so far helped a lot but: sacrifing the detail vs the overview and creating partial, discontinuous and distorted views along the change scale border.
mapXpan is a patented system to fix it once for all.
mapXpan shows simultaneously charts at different scales integrated to mantain the focus at the higher level of detail, ensuring seamless in the object display, including a full overview and a visualization at glance similar to the traditional paper charts.
It is composed by a portion (usually central) of the screen in plan view at the preferred zoom level and a number of concentric sloped frames with decreasing scale towards the screen border.
mapXpan extends your horizon.
description continues at
http://globalaquamaps.com/AquaHV.html