An Introduction -- International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet: An Introduction -- Delivering geospatial information with Web 2.0 -- Map design for the Internet -- Web Cartography and the Dissemination of Cartographic Information about Coastal Inundation and Sea Level Rise -- An Elastic Map System with Cognitive Map-based Operations -- Technical Development -- New Approaches for Integrating GIS layers and Remote Sensing Imagery for Online Mapping Services -- Large format maps on the Internet -- Advancement of Web Standards and Techniques for Developing Hypermedia Maps on the Internet -- Spatial functionality based on SVG -- Google Earth and XML: Advanced Visualization and Publishing of Geographic Information -- GeoTagMapper: An Online Map-based Geographic Information Retrieval System for Geo-Tagged Web Content -- An Open Source Development Framework in Support of Cartographic Integration -- UMapIT© (Unrestricted Mapping Interactive Tool): Merging the datacube paradigm with an occurrence-based approach to support on-demand web mapping -- Application Development -- Distributed Research and Scientific Creativity: Accessible Data for the Social Sciences -- Teaching Cartography on the Web with a Multimedia GIS: A New Solution -- Issues in School web Atlas Use: The prototype atlas of Rio Claro - Brazil -- Maps in the Natural Disasters Networking Platform (NaDiNe) - Meeting the users' needs: from static images to highly interactive real-time information integration -- Web-based health mapping - A short way from the data to the user -- Internet-Based Mapping for the Blind and People with Visual Impairment -- User-Centered Design Approaches for Web Mapping Applications: A Case Study with USGS Hydrological Data in the United States -- Journalistic Cartography on the Web: A Comparison of Print and Online Maps in Seven Major American Newspapers -- Web Cartography for World Heritage Cities: A survey and evaluation -- Conceptual Development -- Development and implementation of an electronic journal for publishing peer-reviewed GIS-based maps on the Web -- Lost and found, the importance of modelling map content semantically -- The effects of web mapping applications on user satisfaction: an empirical study -- Will Today's Internet Maps be Available Tomorrow? The Preservation and Archiving of the Cybercartographic Atlas of Antarctica Through Action Research. 1 International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet: An Introduction Michael P. Peterson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2 Delivering geospatial information with Web 2. 0 William Cartwright . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 3 Map design for the Internet Bernhard Jenny, Helen Jenny, Stefan Räber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 4 Web Cartography and the Dissemination of Cartographic Information about Coastal Inundation and Sea Level Rise Mark Monmonier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 5 An Elastic Map System with Cognitive Map-based Operations Naohisa Takahashi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 1 International Perspectives on Maps and the Internet: An Introduction Michael P. Peterson 1. 1 Introduction The Mosaic browser, the ? rst to support graphics, was introduced in 1993 and, at some point during that year, the ? rst map was transmitted through the Internet to a web page. Little notice was taken of the ? rst web map but the development of Internet cartography since has been nothing but remarkable. The new medium of communication changed maps from static entities on paper to dynamic products of interaction. Millions of maps are now created by servers every hour and transmitted through the Internet. When we need to ? nd a place or ? nd out about a place, we turn immediately to these servers through the Internet. In a few short years, the World Wide Web has transformed the Internet into the primary medium for the dissemi- tion of spatial information in the form of maps.