Improving the Visualization of Geospatial Data Using Google’s KML

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Main Author:	Odoi, Ebenezer Attua, Jr
Language:	English
Published:	The Ohio State University / OhioLINK 2012
Subjects:	Geographic Information Science Geography visualization kml google earth geospatial data thematic mapping geobrowsers
Online Access:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338836407

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spelling	ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu13388364072021-08-03T06:05:34Z Improving the Visualization of Geospatial Data Using Google’s KML Odoi, Ebenezer Attua, Jr Geographic Information Science Geography visualization kml google earth geospatial data thematic mapping geobrowsers The Geospatial community continues to search for effective tools that produce visualizations of the nature of the earth and its features. With the aid of geobrowsers like Google Maps and Google Earth, geoscientists can now tell their ‘tales’ in ways that nonscientists can grasp and respond to in terms of awareness, policy formulation, application development and integration in ventures that usher human existence forward. This thesis explores diverse visualization techniques using Google’s Keyhole Markup Language (KML) that will benefit the viewing of geological data. In the process the thesis will show the potential of geobrowsers and KML as a unified programming language. Though there has been a proliferation of digital map viewers like geobrowsers being developed, thematic mapping capabilities, unfortunately, has been left out. The thesis will explore how KML can be used to achieve thematic mapping, though KML itself was not specifically designed for this application. Current possibilities for making proportional symbol maps, chart maps, choropleth maps and animated maps with KML will be presented. The innovation of the thesis is the conversion of a database table into a thematic map, using proportional symbols to represent the data. The visualization implementations developed in this research show that KML and geobrowsers offer great potential for thematic mapping, but there are significant issues that need to be resolved. This thesis will open a wider audience to implement visualization that they prefer to see via using their own datasets. 2012-07-17 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338836407 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1338836407 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws.
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Improving the Visualization of Geospatial Data Using Google’s KML

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