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CYBERMAPS
 The
3D cityscape view of the Web generated by Map.Net.
You fly-through the world, with individual websites represented
by different buildings. The large skyscrapers are the most
popular and important site on the Web.
 The
Harmony Internet browser
provides 3D information landscape visualisations of Web sites.
It was developed by Keith
Andrews and colleagues at the Institute for Information
Processing and Computer Supported New Media (IICM) at Graz
University of Technology. (See Keith Andrew's paper "Visualising
Cyberspace: Information Visualisation in the Harmony Internet
Browser")
 This
is an example of the City
of News, a 3D information browsing system being developed by
Flavia
Sparacino, at MIT Media Lab. The visual representation is
based on a city metaphor.
 This
example is SiteMap
developed by Xia Lin, Drexel University, maps part of the Web
space relating to astronomy and space science as stored in the
Yahoo directory. The hierarchical, text listing in Yahoo is
transformed into land-use cybermap.
 "ET-Map"
- a multi-level category map of the information space of over
100,000 entertainment related Web pages listed by Yahoo!. ET-Map
is one of a number of information visualisation technique
developed by researchers,lead by Hsinchun Chen, at the Artificial
Intelligence Lab, University of Arizona, USA.
 Kartoo
- les cartes du web. An interesting network metaphor as a visual
interface to search engine results.
 Websites
can be indexed and mapped by geographic location. This example
is the UK
clickable map maintained by Peter Burden at the University
of Wolverhampton and provides a map directory of the websites of
all universities and colleges in the United Kingdom.
 WebMap,
an interactive, multi-level visual directory that maps 2 million
plus web sites Individual websites in the categories are shown
by small mountain symbols.
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