Skip to main content

Web GIS in practice

  1. This paper covers the use of depth sensors such as Microsoft Kinect and ASUS Xtion to provide a natural user interface (NUI) for controlling 3-D (three-dimensional) virtual globes such as Google Earth (includi...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Bryan J Blanchard, Cory Walker, Julio Montero, Aalap Tripathy and Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:45
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  2. The goal of visual analytics is to facilitate the discourse between the user and the data by providing dynamic displays and versatile visual interaction opportunities with the data that can support analytical ...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Teeradache Viangteeravat, Matthew N Anyanwu, Venkateswara Ra Nagisetty and Emin Kuscu
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2011 10:19
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  3. HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), the core markup language of the World Wide Web. It aims at reducing the need for proprietary, plug-in-based rich Interne...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Jeffrey Warren, Jianya Gong and Peng Yue
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2010 9:14
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  5. 'Mashup' was originally used to describe the mixing together of musical tracks to create a new piece of music. The term now refers to Web sites or services that weave data from different sources into a new dat...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos, Matthew Scotch, Kei-Hoi Cheung and David Burden
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2008 7:38
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  7. Open Source Web GIS software systems have reached a stage of maturity, sophistication, robustness and stability, and usability and user friendliness rivalling that of commercial, proprietary GIS and Web GIS se...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos and Kiyoshi Honda
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2006 5:6
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  8. This eye-opener article aims at introducing the health GIS community to the emerging online consumer geoinformatics services from Google and Microsoft (MSN), and their potential utility in creating custom onli...

    Authors: Maged N Kamel Boulos
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:22
    Content type: Editorial Published on:

  9. The rates of Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in England have been rising steadily since the mid 1990s, making them a major public health concern. In 2003, 672,718 people were diagnosed with an STD in Engl...

    Authors: Maged NKamel Boulos, Chris Russell and Michael Smith
    Citation: International Journal of Health Geographics 2005 4:4
    Content type: Editorial Published on: