Menno-Jan Kraak

These days simple tools exist that allow everyone to make maps, and subsequently use social media to disseminate the maps, with can reach millions.

Annotations in an interactive atlas environment will support the user to execute atlas tasks, and help them to better understand what they see in respect to the (carto)graphic representations used,

Origin-Destination (OD) flow maps are a popular topic in contemporary cartographic and GIS research because they may show interesting spatio-temporal patterns, but are difficult to render legibly.