Abstract
Augmented reality (AR) combines information from databases with information derived directly through the human senses or different sensors. AR is the organic, real-time, and dynamically overlaying virtual images created by computers and other information on a real environment that the observer can see. Virtual information changes according to the movement of the observer, as if that virtual information truly exists in the real world. The convergence of geographic information systems (GIS), web mapping, mobile technology, and augmented reality (AR) implies the emergence of location based systems (LBS) and, in turn, the diminishing use of traditional analog maps by smartphone users. The focus and review of current achievements in this subject on the wider trends of the use of AR also prove that coding of some data and metadata on an image or a map (both in digital and analogue form) permits inter alia the inclusion of, for example, a paper map or analogue image into the chain of digital devices use. Some solutions, remarks, and comments concerning functioning of the digitally augmented (printed) map and their digital counterparts within the information society are presented.
Highlights
Visualization uses the techniques of image, animation, or diagram creation aimed at forwarding messages
These processes are supported through the development of techniques and solutions that allow visual interaction between the user and available spatial data, as well as presenting them in the form of spatially registered graphical models
The progress of AR technology recently distinguished a fifth generation of media, so-called wearable augmented reality devices (WARD), which promise a new digital turn after the previous achievements [22]
Summary
Geovisualization is understood as the use of visual aspects of spatial information aimed at building the knowledge of milieu (environment) in a holistic approach and making it more understood These processes are supported through the development of techniques and solutions that allow visual interaction between the user and available spatial data, as well as presenting them in the form of spatially registered graphical models. Geovisualizations may display the non-geographical information related to linking them with places of their origin (or possible target locations), that is, Geography of Hate project (covering Geotagged Hateful Tweets in the United States from June 2012 to April 2013, [4]) This way of reality representation puts emphasis, after all, on methods of scientific visualization in studies and decision processes. Another feature of mobile maps is the ability to rotate relative to a dominant object on the map (most often water body) to show the actual orientation (“logically-aligned”) of the map [7]
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