vienna - MSc Topics
Open source data and national mapping agencies
Undertake a survey of NMAs to determine recent changes in products and interaction with the open source community.
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Reproducing and updating historic user studies from cartography and related domains
The goal of this research is to a) re-implement two or more classic studies from cartography using modern digital tools; b) to attempt to replicate the findings
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Cartographic display of mass real-time urban observations
Assess the usability and value of portraying multi-dimensional, large volume, sensor-derived, dynamic urban data.
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Prediciting Affordance Differences of Map Use of different media
In this thesis eventual differences in the action possibilities of using maps based on the affordances of maps in different media should be analyzed.
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Developing a location-based “CartoGame” for learning the main concepts of cartography by using GeoGami
Academic education of the fundamental concepts and methods of cartography is usually done in the class room, often by frontal lectures.
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The design of base map layers
Research the use of vector tiles for base layers in thematic mapping.
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