I have been working for the last few months on an edited book project with Martin Turner and Mary McDerby in Manchester Computing. The book is going to be about new developments in geographic visualization and it emerged from a successful workshop we held in Manchester last June. We have been speaking to Wiley and they have just agreed to publish it. I hope it will be out by the end of 2007.

We have a strong line up of contributors and I really think it has potential to be a good volume.

The draft outline of the book is as follows:


Geographic Visualization: Concepts, Tools and Applications

Tables of Contents

1. Introduction - the power in visualizing geographically
Martin Dodge, Mary McDerby and Martin Turner

Section One: Visualization Concepts

2. What does Google Earth mean for the social sciences?
Michael Goodchild

3. Exploratory visualization, beyond multiple linked views
Jonathan Roberts

4. The role of map animation for geographic visualization
Mark Harrower and Sara Fabrikant

Section Two: Innovations in Geo-Tools

5. Telling an old story with new maps
Danny Dorling and Anna Barford

6. Bio mapping: experiments in participatory emotion mapping
Christian Nold

7. Re-visiting the use of surrogate walks for visualizing local geographies using non-immersive multimedia
William Cartwright

8. Visualisation through high-resolution aerial photography in planning related property research
Scott Orford

9. Computing déjà vu: an n-dimensional approach to visualizing geographic experience
André Skupin

Section Three: The Value of the Third-Dimension

10. The visual city
Andy Hudson-Smith and Mike Batty

11. Travails in the third dimension: A critical evaluation of 3D geographical visualization
Ifan Shepherd

12. State of the art in immersive geographic visualization technology
Martin Turner and Mary McDerby

13. Landscape visualization: science and art
Gary Priestnall and Derek Hampson

Section Four: Challenges - Metadata, Uncertainty, Temporality, and Mobility

14. Visualization, data sharing and metadata
Humphrey Southall

15. Visualizing geographic uncertainty
Stephanie Deitrick and Robert Edsall

16. Geovisualization and time - new opportunities for the space-time cube
Menno-Jan Kraak

17. Visualizing data gathered by mobile phones
Michael Wright, Leif Oppermann, Mauricio Capra, and Adam Drozd