ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the use of 3D representations of landscape, where digital terrain data is used as a backdrop to place cultural heritage information including passages from works of literature, diaries and sketches, into a broader landscape context. Three case studies, which offer examples of different presentation techniques, one based on a computer monitor, one on a physical landscape model and one on a mobile device, are described. The studies engage with the same geographic area, upland Cumbria in North West England, where surface relief is a dominant feature of the landscape. Each case study, however, uses different technologies appropriate to the contexts of display and a set of stated aims. The chapter will summarise the affordances of each technique, present observations from their use and discuss some of the opportunities and design challenges of utilising geospatial technology and digital landscape models for communicating spatial context.
