The visualization and interactive exploration of geo-referenced networks poses challenges if the network's nodes are not evenly distributed. Our approach proposes new ways of realizing animated transitions for exploring such networks from an ego-perspective. We aim to reduce the required screen estate while maintaining the viewers' mental map of distances and directions. A preliminary study provides first insights of the comprehensiveness of animated geographic transitions regarding directional relationships between start and end point in different projections. Two use cases showcase how ego-perspective graph exploration can be supported using less screen space than previous approaches.

翻译：地理参考网络的可视化与交互式探索在其节点分布不均时面临挑战。本文提出从自我中心视角探索此类网络时实现动画过渡的新方法。我们的目标是在保持观察者对距离与方向心理认知的同时，减少所需的屏幕空间。一项初步研究通过不同投影下起点与终点间的方向关系，首次揭示了动画地理过渡对空间关系理解的综合影响。两个应用案例展示了如何以少于现有方法的屏幕空间支持自我中心视角的图探索。