Geovisualización de la población: nuevas tendencias en la web social

Geovisualization of populations: New trends in the social web Geographic visualization, or geovisualization, places space as the central theme in knowledge exploration about the world around us. This paper reviews recent trends in the geoweb and geovisualization of sociodemographic information. The paper presents several examples of research projects to geovisualize social and population dynamics developed at University College London (UCL). The main aim of these research projects on geovisualisation is to make available to the general public alternative representations of social and population phenomena over space. To this end, new geovisualisation technologies facilitate the combination of geographic content supplied from various sources and websites, but integrated together through mapping mashups. These “cartographic aggregations” are built to fit the end user’s preferences at no cost. As a result, an average lay user can share with the world their particular sociospatial representations of reality in ways that seemed unthinkable just a few years ago.