Not Getting Lost in Multi-Scale Maps: Exploring the Anchor Theory in Cartographic Zoom Interactions in the Context of Crisis Management

Project Information

LostInZoom

Grant agreement ID: 101003012

DOI

10.3030/101003012

EC signature date 20 January 2021

Start date 1 April 2021

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 2 000 000,00

Coordinated by

INSTITUT NATIONAL DE L'INFORMATION GEOGRAPHIQUE ET FORESTIERE
France

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Data Management Plan DMP

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Enriching river network data for multi-scale machine learning based selection: a case study of Poland and France

Author(s): Bérénice Le Mao, Iga Ajdacka, Izabela Karsznia, Guillaume Touya, Albert Adolf
Published in: Abstracts of the ICA, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 1-2, ISSN 2570-2106
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-7-83-2024

EyeCatchingMaps, a Dataset to Assess Saliency Models on Maps

Author(s): Laura Wenclik, Guillaume Touya
Published in: AGILE: GIScience Series, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 2700-8150
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/agile-giss-5-51-2024

Exploring the presence and persistence of cartographic anchors in pan-scalar maps

Author(s): Maïeul Gruget, Guillaume Touya, Ian Muehlenhaus
Published in: Spatial Cognition & Computation, Issue 25, 2025, Page(s) 195-227, ISSN 1387-5868
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/13875868.2024.2383419

Understanding the Carbon Footprint of Tile Transfer for Web Maps

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Azelle Courtial, Jérémy Kalsron, Justin Berli, Bérénice Le Mao, Laura Wenclik
Published in: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 107, ISSN 2220-9964
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi14030107

Explore maps as you read a comic book

Author(s): Bérénice Le Mao, Guillaume Touya
Published in: AGILE: GIScience Series, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 1-12, ISSN 2700-8150
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/agile-giss-5-10-2024

Recording the Use of InteractiveWeb Maps with ZoomTracker

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Rieulle Brusq, Lilia Campo, Vanessa Pech, Laura Wenclik
Published in: Abstracts of the ICA, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 1-2, ISSN 2570-2106
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-7-176-2024

A three-in-one tool for cartographic generalization with the new version of CartAGen

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Justin Berli, Paul Bourcier
Published in: Advances in Cartography and GIScience of the ICA, Issue 5, 2025, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 2570-2084
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ica-adv-5-31-2025

More is less - Adding zoom levels in multi-scale maps to reduce the need for zooming interactions

Author(s): Marion Dumont, Guillaume Touya, Cécile Duchêne
Published in: Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2023, Page(s) 93-124, ISSN 1948-660X
Publisher: The National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis (NCGIA)
DOI: 10.5311/josis.2023.27.277

Where Am I Now? Modelling Disorientation in Pan-Scalar Maps

Author(s): Guillaume Touya; Maieul Gruget; Ian Muehlenhaus
Published in: ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Issue 12 (2), 2023, ISSN 2220-9964
Publisher: MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi12020062

Browsing Map Browsers

Author(s): Quentin Potié, Guillaume Touya, Laura Wenclik, William Mackaness
Published in: Abstracts of the ICA, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 1-2, ISSN 2570-2106
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-7-130-2024

Incorporating ideas of structure and meaning in interactive multi scale mapping environments

Author(s): Guillaume Touya; Quentin Potié; William A. Mackaness
Published in: International Journal of Cartography, Issue 9 (2), 2023, ISSN 2372-9333
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2023.2215960

Missing the city for buildings? A critical review of pan-scalar map generalization and design in contemporary zoomable maps

Author(s): Maïeul Gruget; Guillaume Touya; Ian Muehlenhaus
Published in: International Journal of Cartography, Issue 9 (2), 2023, Page(s) 342-372, ISSN 2372-9333
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/23729333.2022.2153467

Exploring new ways to zoom in maps

Author(s): Yiyan Li, Guillaume Touya
Published in: Abstracts of the ICA, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 1-2, ISSN 2570-2106
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-7-86-2024

A methodological inquiry for anchoring pan-scalar maps

Author(s): Maïeul Gruget, Guillaume Touya, Quentin Potié, Ian Muehlenhaus
Published in: AGILE: GIScience Series, Issue 5, 2024, Page(s) 1-6, ISSN 2700-8150
Publisher: Copernicus GmbH
DOI: 10.5194/agile-giss-5-27-2024

Conference proceedings (18)

The FogDetector: A User Survey to Measure Disorientation in Pan-Scalar Maps

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Justin Berli
Published in: 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023), Issue 277, 2023, Page(s) 73:1–73:6, ISBN 978-3-95977-288-4
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
DOI: 10.4230/lipics.giscience.2023.73

Where do people look at during multi-scale map tasks?

Author(s): Laura Wenclik, Guillaume Touya
Published in: AGILE: GIScience Series, Issue 4, 2023
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/agile-giss-4-51-2023

Please, Help Me! I Am Lost in Zoom

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, María-Jesús Lobo, William A Mackaness, Ian Muehlenhaus
Published in: Proceedings of the ICA, Issue 4, 2021, Page(s) 107
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/ica-proc-4-107-2021

When is a Ring Road a ’Ring Road’? A Brief Perceptual Study

Author(s): Quentin Potié, William Mackaness, Guillaume Touya
Published in: AGILE GIScience Series, Issue 3, 2022, Page(s) 54
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/agile-giss-3-54-2022

Experiments in the automatic segmentation of anchors using deep learning techniques

Author(s): Quentin Potié, Guillaume Touya, William Mackaness
Published in: CartoAI: AI for cartography, 2023
Publisher: ICA

Salient building detection using multimodal deep learning

Author(s): Eric Lafon, Quentin Potié, Guillaume Touya
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st CartoAI Workshop, 2023
Publisher: ICA

The role of map generalisation in the context of thematic multi-scale cartography

Author(s): Paul Bourcier, Guillaume Touya
Published in: Proceedings of the ICA Workshop on Multiscale Cartography and Sustainability, 2025
Publisher: ICA

BasqueRoads: A Benchmark for Road Network Selection

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Azelle Courtial
Published in: Abstracts of the ICA, 2022, Page(s) 5
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-4-5-2022

Deep learning for anchor detection in multi-scale maps

Author(s): Quentin Potié, Guillaume Touya, Chaimaa Beladraoui, Amina El-Moutaouakkil, William Mackaness
Published in: Abstracts of the ICA, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 82
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-5-82-2022

Cartagen4py, an open source Python library for map generalisation

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Justin Berli, Azelle Courtial
Published in: Proceedings of 25th ICA Workshop on Map Generalisation and Multiple Representation, 2023
Publisher: ICA

This is a map of ‘Jardin Lecoq’ - Analyzing map descriptions from LLMs

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Jérémy Kalsron, Laura Wenclik, Quentin Potié
Published in: Proceedings of 2nd CartoAI Workshop, 2025
Publisher: -

L’Alpe d’Huez: A Benchmark for Topographic Map Generalisation

Author(s): Guillaume Touya
Published in: Abstracts of the ICA, Issue 4, 2022, Page(s) 4
Publisher: Copernicus Publications
DOI: 10.5194/ica-abs-4-4-2022

MapDraw - an online tool to draw anything you want on top of a map

Author(s): Guillaume Touya, Justin Berli, Maïeul Gruget, Quentin Potié
Published in: Proceedings of AGILE 2023 - Poster session, 2023
Publisher: Copernicus Publications

Does Generalisation Matters in Pan-Scalar Maps?

Author(s): Azelle Courtial, Guillaume Touya
Published in: 12th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2023), Issue 277, 2023, Page(s) 23:1–23:6, ISBN 978-3-95977-288-4
Publisher: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik
DOI: 10.4230/lipics.giscience.2023.23

Progressive river network selection for pan-scalar maps

Author(s): Bérénice Le Mao, Guillaume Touya
Published in: Proceedings of 25th ICA Workshop on Map Generalisation and Multiple Representation, 2023
Publisher: ICA

Text-to-map generation: a review of current potentials

Author(s): Azelle Courtial, Jérémy Kalsron, Bérénice Le Mao, Quentin Potié, Guillaume Touya, Laura Wenclik
Published in: Proceedings of the 1st CartoAI Workshop, 2023
Publisher: ICA

Back to the roots - Using map generalization for green cartography

Author(s): Guillaume Touya
Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiscale Cartography and Sustainability, 2025
Publisher: ICA

Level of detail matters: machine learning based river selection across Polish and French data

Author(s): Izabela Karsznia, Iga Ajdacka, Bérénice Le Mao, Guillaume Touya, Albert Adolf
Published in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Multiscale Cartography and Sustainability, 2025
Publisher: ICA