Using multimedia surrogate travel tools for better understanding local geography

William Cartwright

doi:10.1117/12.714224

28 October 2006 Using multimedia surrogate travel tools for better understanding local geography

William Cartwright

Proceedings Volume 6420, Geoinformatics 2006: Geospatial Information Science; 642024 (2006) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.714224
Event: Geoinformatics 2006: GNSS and Integrated Geospatial Applications, 2006, Wuhan, China

Abstract

Surrogate travel (or sometimes referred to as movie maps) is the term given to the use of interactive multimedia products that allow users to 'travel' through environments. They are built with a variety of multimedia products, but they have in common the goal to provide tools that allow buildings, towns, cities and natural environments to be appreciated and understood without actually 'being there'. This paper provides a brief background to surrogate travel and it gives, by way of background, a brief description of two key surrogate travel cartographically-related products - the Aspen Movie Map and the Domesday project. It also provides brief details of surrogate travel products developed by the author as proof-of-concept prototypes. Finally, the paper provides information about further developments of surrogate travel by the author.

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William Cartwright "Using multimedia surrogate travel tools for better understanding local geography", Proc. SPIE 6420, Geoinformatics 2006: Geospatial Information Science, 642024 (28 October 2006); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.714224

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