
Current software for estimating potential losses from hazards uses GIS software in order to display results of damage analysis on a map. In parallel, within the fields of geographic visualization and GISc systems capable of visualizing data for entire planets are starting to appear. One of the new challenges in this context is to develop a simple and intuitive general purpose navigation mode that will work well for a single planet from outer space to a street level. Such works are missing today. Although the need for global navigation in disaster management is rather conceptual than practical, introducing a conceptually better navigation mode has positive practical consequences also for applications in the field. By better concept for a navigation mode we mean: The navigation become generally usable around the whole globe regardless location of the viewpoint or level of detailused for the scene rendering; the navigation is intuitive for humans; and the navigation is simple by utilizing a single set of straightforward methematical relations. In this text we introduce such global navigation mode, which has been implemented in GRIFINOR system.
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