From "Internet cartography" to "ubiquitous cartography"

From "Internet cartography" to "ubiquitous cartography" Currently cartography seems to undergo a change of paradigms, triggered by technological innovations like the Internet and multimedia as well as an improved telecommunication infrastructure and their further development. In this way it becomes feasible that cartography will be able to pro vide user-tailored information for anybody, anywhere and at any time. "Ubiquitous cartography" is the new research field analyzing such concepts. It can be considered a sort of new theoretical umbrella for its precursors Internet cartography, telecartography and multimedia cartography. In this paper the main challenges posed by it are analyzed.