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Usability and the GeoWeb Part 3: Protect Your Users From Themselves

In his third article on user interfaces and the GeoWeb Brian Noyle addresses "protecting users from themselves." The basic idea is to design an interface so that users don't get into trouble and have a "bad experience." The goal is never to point to "less experienced" or "brain dead" users, but rather to advocate for and create really effective interfaces.

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Advances in Spatial and Temporal Databases: 11th International Symposium, SSTD 2009
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases, SSTD 2009, held in Aalborg, Denmark, in July 2009. The 20 revised full papers presented together with three keynotes, seven short papers, and 10 demonstration papers, were thoroughly reviewed and selected from a total of 62 research submissions and 11 demonstration submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on spatial and flow networks, integrity and security, uncertain data and new technologies, indexing and monitoring moving objects, advanced queries, as well as on models and languages. From Springer, 2009.

Research Trends in Geographic Information Science
In June/July 2008 the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography at the Vienna University of Technology organized a scientific colloquium in this city, where 15 well-known scientists presented their ideas on research for the upcoming decade. This book contains papers prepared by the participants as well as by other researchers. The 18papers in this book reflect the opinion of a core group of geoinformation scientists about future research topics. Dealing with these topics poses multiple research questions for the coming years. Springer, 2009.

Online Query Processing in Geographic Information Systems: Statistical and Probabilistic Approaches
Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been widely used in many applications for exploring large georeferenced datasets. With the recent advances in Internet technologies, a large volume of GIS data is available on the Web. As a result, an increasing number of emerging applications began to provide tools for accessing these data. However, exploring these large data sets through spatial queries can be very time and resource intensive. The need for interactive spatial queries has arisen in many GIS applications for efficient decision-support. Another issue related to online query processing in GIS is the limited access to Web data by certain types of queries due to restrictive Web interfaces. This problem hinders online data retrieval, which necessitates methods that utilize certain query types to provide solutions to non-supported queries. This book studies technical, practical and theoretical issues in designing and implementing online query processing in GIS and provides techniques for interactive spatial joins and efficient Web data retrieval. This work should be useful to professionals in spatial databases and GIS. From VDM Verlag, 2009.

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