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RIMAP - ESPON Mapping Tool Sergio Muñoz – sergio.munoz@aidico.es

RIMAP - ESPON Mapping Tool Sergio Muñoz – sergio.munoz@aidico.es. ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness.

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RIMAP - ESPON Mapping Tool Sergio Muñoz – sergio.munoz@aidico.es

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  1. RIMAP - ESPON Mapping Tool Sergio Muñoz – sergio.munoz@aidico.es ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness

  2. The Online Mapping Tool should provide a tool to visualize and analyze data, available in the ESPON Database, in maps and diagrams. This tool should fill the gap between disseminating data in tables (by the ESPON Database) and disseminating data in fixed maps (by the ESPON Online MapFinder and ESPON projects). The ESPON Online Mapping Tool should be a highly interactive mapping tool available via the Internet where users could select, combine and overlay indicators from the ESPON database, choose the geography and even include animations based on indicator time series RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool - Objective 2

  3. User and Data requirements have being defined from: • Evaluation of existing systems: OECD Explorer, Gapminder, Indiemapper, etc. • Scenarios and Use Cases definition. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool - Requirements

  4. Strengths • The tabs are easy to understand, providing more options or changing them. • The charts help to understand and reinforce the information, which it’s been displayed on the maps. • Resizing the charts and the maps to full size helps to the user focusing in the data or the visualization. • The timeline is a very intuitive resource for a variable that it is going to be used very often. • The use of dropmenu in indicators selection is intuitive and saves space in the interface. • Tooltips reinforce the information displaying, are elegant if they have a good design and don’t saturate the information display. • Bubble charts are easy to understand and in addition they add another possibilities as basic operations with the indicators. • The information displayed in the map and the chart has to be linked. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Existing Webs Evaluation 4

  5. Weakness • Too many options in the main screen can cause no expert users don’t use the tool because an information overload. In addition, with low-resolution screens as tablets or netbooks, it can be difficult to use and understand the information displayed. • Too many charts and/or maps (three or four) saturate the user when he tries to understand the information, which it is been displayed. The tool has to be used as “it is”, too many options and possibilities are confusing for the user. • The tool has to be intuitive with few and useful options. Furthermore, the learning curve has to be as low as possible. • The user does not need to know all the EU geography, so the tool has to provide some options for choosing geographic areas in a visual way. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Existing Webs Evaluation 5

  6. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Basic and Expert Mode 6

  7. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Basic and Expert Mode 7

  8. Main menu area with icon based access. At this area, the user can do the actions: • Select Basic or Expert Mode. • General tool settings. • Open/Save Map. • Open/Save Map Settings. • Export Map: as image (png, jpg…) or document (pdf, csv). • Help and assistance section. • About Mapping Tool. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Main Menu 8

  9. Area for the temporary selection of which information will be shown. At this area, the user can do the actions: • Selecting indicators by theme, name and relevance: WHAT. • Selecting Geographical Study Area and Level: WHERE. • Selecting Time Period. Play and stop the representation of the temporal evolution of the selected indicators: WHEN. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Selection Zone 9

  10. Main area for displaying maps. At this area, the user can do the actions: • This area can be maximized or minimized for easy viewing. • Zoom in/Zoom out and Pan. • Select regions by mouse click events. • Show region information by mouse over events. • Change the Ranges representation. • Restore to default map settings. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Map Zone 10

  11. Area for displaying graphics. At this area, the user can do the actions: • This area can be maximized or minimized for easy viewing. • Tabs for selecting the chart type (distribution, scatter, bar, sectorial or data table representation). • Ability to provide analysis tools. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Graph Zone 1999 11

  12. RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool - Preview Bar Chart 1999 2001 2002 2000 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 1999 Select Theme Select Indicator 12

  13. December 2012 (Interim Report): Prototype of the Online Mapping tool including the main structure of the tool and a linkage to the ESPON 2013 Database September 2013 (Draft Final Report): Draft Final version of the Online Mapping tool December 2013 (Final Report) Final version of the Online Mapping tool RIMAP – ESPON Mapping Tool – Schedule 13

  14. RIMAP - ESPON Mapping Tool Sergio Muñoz – sergio.munoz@aidico.es ESPON Internal Seminar 2012 Territorial Development Opportunities in Europe and its Neighbourhood Fostering Global Competitiveness

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