Further to recent blog posts on my UCL MSc research project, as part of the assessment of the project I was required to submit and present Poster describing my project and its provisional findings. That presentation took place in September 2012. Feedback from the presentation was positive and reference was made to the extent of the work that I had undertaken. In particular it was felt that both the full literature review and the web application produced went beyond that expected for an MSc project. This was particularly gratifying, knowing that I undertook a large amount of work on the project.
As per previous blog posts covering my MSc research project, the key tenets of the research are the importance of the study of time in GIScience, of the convergence of maps and video and the use of maps to provide narrative and to tell stories, expressing the storyteller’s perception of both space and time. The web application produced (on which I will blog in a future post) uses GPX files, of the type produced from a handheld GPS device, to dynamically progress a 3D map animation of the corresponding route. In addition the tool provides the ability to add georeferenced contextual information (images, text) to the route animation through the use of web service look-ups to blog and image libraries. Based on research undertaken during the project, no other free web map app tools could be found which do the same. As you will see from the Poster below, the initial LAMP stack approach was replaced with HTML5, based on significantly faster response time at the front-end.
The Poster can be found below …
