Abstract
Cartographic Styles Used in Spatial Planning Maps to Visualise Uncertain, Unfinished and Imagined Content
Highlights
How exactly should these partly-baked ideas be visualised, especially their uncertain nature? Are there different types of uncertainty that need to be considered and what are they? In GIScience and cartography, there exists extensive research about different types of uncertainty and how to visually deal with them: for example, how to visualise objects with unclear boundaries or ways to automatically smoothen geometries
Assumptions, hypotheses, suggestions, and questions, that are still open to discussion or, in other words, are uncertain (Figure 2 shows two examples of such maps)
Little research can be found about how they all come together in maps created during the spatial design process
Summary
How exactly should these partly-baked ideas be visualised, especially their uncertain nature? Are there different types of uncertainty that need to be considered and what are they? In GIScience and cartography, there exists extensive research about different types of uncertainty and how to visually deal with them: for example, how to visualise objects with unclear boundaries or ways to automatically smoothen geometries. Katharina Henggeler a,*, Lorenz Hurni a a Institute of Cartography and Geoinformation, ETH Zurich, {khenggel|lhurni}@ethz.ch * Corresponding author Keywords: Cartographic Style, Spatial Design, Uncertainty Visualisation, Fuzziness Visualisation, Map Cognition Abstract: Traditionally, maps aspire to be as precise, clear, and unambiguous as possible. Spatial planners increasingly have to deal with complex, multi-layered, and interdisciplinary problems. Planners are confronted with a heap of unsolved conflicts and tasks with unclear priority (see e.g., Figure 1).
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