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Digital
media are best suited for the presentation of regional, urban
and specialized topics. Especially the field of multimedia-cartography
creates new ways of expressing information and transferring
discoveries. It is much easier with this technologies to fix
a wide range of persons up with maps. Maps are no longer an
elite tool of a small number of professionals, but enable
the discussion and information in geographical and thematical
aspects.
Archaeology as a scientific discipline explores and tries
to find and visualize dependencies of non visual connections
of findings and building remains. The aim is to receive an
understandable general view. For this reason multimedia cartography
provides a powerful tool for the communication among scientists
and for the presentation to a general public. The consideration
that the quality of presentation is set by the perception
and the thinking of the user, whose reference throughout the
evolution is the 3D space, should define the way of processing
and visualizing information.
This article explains the work of multimedia cartography,
shows up the main requirements to datasets and mainly describes
the role of multimedia cartography in the field of archaeology.
With the help of the latest developments in the project "Carnuntum
3D" the suitability for experts and for a general public
should be discussed.
Keywords: cartography, multimedia, map, presentation
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