Although the notion of ‘too many markers’ have been mentioned in several research, in practice, displaying hundreds of Points of Interests (POI) on a web map in two dimensions with an acceptable usability remains a real challenge nowadays. Web practitioners often make excessive use of clustering aggregation to overcome performance bottlenecks without effectively resolving issues of perceived performance. This paper tries to bring a broad awareness by identifying a sample of experience issues which describe a general reality of clustering, and provide a pragmatic survey of potential technologies optimisations. At the end, we discuss the usage of technologies and the lack of documented client-server workflows, along with the need to enlarge our vision of the various clutter reduction methods.
Title
Rethinking the usage and experience of clustering in web mapping
Date
2020-07
Published in
Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; Proceedings of HCI International 2020, 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 19-24 July 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark
Publisher
Copenhagen, Denmark, 19-24 July 2020
Pagination
20 p.
Presented at
Human Interface and the Management of Information. Designing Information, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2020-07-19, 2020-07-24
ISBN
978-3-030-50019-1
ISSN
0302-9743
Collection and number
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 12184
Paper type
full paper
Faculty
Ingénierie et Architecture
School
HEIG-VD
Institute
MEI - Media Engineering Institute
Note
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, The HCI International 2020, 22nd International Conference on HUman-Computer-Interactional conference venue in Copenhagen was cancelled. The proceedings of the online conference are however published according to the original schedule.