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Legend Design

Legend Design is a cartographic method that specifies the structure, visual encoding, and arrangement of symbols and labels in a map legend to accurately convey the relationship between graphical elements and geographic phenomena while ensuring clarity, readability, and consistency within the context of thematic or web-based cartographic visualization.

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315

Citations

31

Authors

15

Institutions

Publications per year

2017–2026

2

Variants

Map Legend Design

Parents

Publications

10

Perceptual complexity of soil-landscape maps: a user evaluation of color organization in legend designs using eye tracking

Arzu Çöltekin, Alžběta Brychtová, Amy L. Griffin et al. · International Journal of Digital Earth · 2016 · 55 citations

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Rethinking Map Legends with Visualization

Jason Dykes, Jo Wood, Aidan Slingsby · IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics · 2010 · 49 citations

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Improving map reading with gaze-adaptive legends

Fabian Göbel, Peter Kiefer, Ioannis Giannopoulos et al. · Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications · 2018 · 41 citations

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Assessing the Effectiveness of Temporal Legends in Environmental Visualization

Rob Edsall, M.J. Kraak, Donna J. Peuquet et al. · University of Twente Research Information · 1997 · 36 citations

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Legend Layouts for Thematic Maps: A Case Study Integrating Usability Metrics with the Thinking Aloud Method

Izabela Gołębiowska · The Cartographic Journal · 2013 · 35 citations

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Authors

31

  1. CP
    Christopher Pettit

    UNSW Sydney, Australia

    1 publications · 55 citations

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  2. FG
    Fabian Göbel

    ETH Zurich, Switzerland

    1 publications · 41 citations

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  3. AT
    Andrew T. Duchowski

    Clemson University, United States

    1 publications · 41 citations

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  4. RE
    Rob Edsall

    Pennsylvania State University, United States

    1 publications · 36 citations

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  5. AS
    Aidan Slingsby

    City, University of London, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 49 citations

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Institutions

15

  1. Government of Victoria

    Melbourne, Australia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    55 citations

  2. Leibniz University Hannover

    Hanover, Germany

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  3. University of Warsaw

    Warsaw, Poland

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    35 citations

  4. University of Oregon

    Eugene, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    35 citations

  5. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    55 citations

  6. Southwest Jiaotong University

    Chengdu, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    13 citations

  7. Clemson University

    Clemson, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    41 citations

  8. Ghent University

    Ghent, Belgium

    1 h-index

    6 publications

    78 citations

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Venues

  1. The Cartographic Journal

    3 publications · 67 citations

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  2. 2

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  3. 1

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  4. IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics

    TVCG · 1 publications · 49 citations

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  5. Computers & Geosciences

    CAGEO · 1 publications · 19 citations

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