Caching time changes in maps
2021-10-01, 10:30–11:00, Buenos Aires

Open History Map aims to display the changes that happened in the past both from a political as well as a social and topographical point of view. the storage of these multi-dimensional changes has an enormous impact on the way the map is visualized. For this reason we needed to develop a caching system that was on one side flexible enough to display a non-quantizable dimension (time) and give us the possibility to pre-cache the whole system into a distributable package for easy local usage and possibly fast update of the package. The caching system itself is backend independent and defines a process to simplify access to a mix of discreet (x,y,z) and continuous (t) identifiers for independently variating geospatial datasets.


Open History Map aims to display the changes that happened in the past both from a political as well as a social and topographical point of view. the storage of these multi-dimensional changes has an enormous impact on the way the map is visualized. For this reason we needed to develop a caching system that was on one side flexible enough to display a non-quantizable dimension (time) and give us the possibility to pre-cache the whole system into a distributable package for easy local usage and possibly fast update of the package. The caching system itself is backend independent and defines a process to simplify access to a mix of discreet (x,y,z) and continuous (t) identifiers for independently variating geospatial datasets.


Authors and Affiliations

Marco Montanari (1), Lorenzo Gigli (2)
(1) Open History Map, (2) University of Bologna

Track

Software

Topic

Data visualization: spatial analysis, manipulation and visualization

Level

3 - Medium. Advanced knowledge is recommended.

Language of the Presentation

English

Software Architect, GIS develpoer, Cultural Heritage freak and Open Data evangelist. he started working with cartography in 2009 and never stopped since. twitter: @ingmmo; github: @sirmmo; twitch: @sirmmo

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