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Efficient generation of area thematic maps in KML

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Bruce A. Ralston,

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GIS '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems

Article No.: 79, Pages 1 - 2

https://doi.org/10.1145/1463434.1463525

Published: 05 November 2008 Publication History

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Thematic maps using KML and KMZ are common for point and line features, but scarce for area features. We present a method and website for generation of the thematic map KMLs based on US Census geography. By taking advantage of various preprocessing and indexing methods, thematic maps viewable in any KML compliant viewer (eg, Google Maps, Google Earth, or ArcGIS Explorer) can be generated very quickly. Our implementation covers counties, census tracts, and zip code tabulation areas for the entire United States and its territories and 31 socio-demographic variables.

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Google, 2008. KML Documentation. http://code.google.com/apis/kml/documentation/. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/161468.161471.

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Ralston, Bruce A., 2004. GIS and Public Data. Delmar Press, Clifton Park, NY.

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United States Census Bureau, 2007. TIGER Line Files, Technical Documentation, 2006 Second Edition. Available at http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/tiger2006se/TGR06SE.pdf.

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Meyers MRalston B(2011)Developing rich web GIS applications for visual analyticsProceedings of the 2011 international conference on Web-Age Information Management10.1007/978-3-642-28635-3_4(40-50)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-28635-3_4
Choimeun SPhumejaya NPomnakchim SChantrapornchai C(2010)Tool for Collecting Spatial Data with Google Maps APIU- and E-Service, Science and Technology10.1007/978-3-642-17644-9_12(107-113)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17644-9_12

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GIS '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGSPATIAL international conference on Advances in geographic information systems

November 2008

559 pages

ISBN:9781605583235

DOI:10.1145/1463434

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Walid G. Aref
Purdue University
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Mohamed F. Mokbel
University of Minnesota
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Markus Schneider
University of Florida

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Meyers MRalston B(2011)Developing rich web GIS applications for visual analyticsProceedings of the 2011 international conference on Web-Age Information Management10.1007/978-3-642-28635-3_4(40-50)Online publication date: 14-Sep-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-642-28635-3_4
Choimeun SPhumejaya NPomnakchim SChantrapornchai C(2010)Tool for Collecting Spatial Data with Google Maps APIU- and E-Service, Science and Technology10.1007/978-3-642-17644-9_12(107-113)Online publication date: 2010
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-17644-9_12

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