To CMSC 725 students - please read the following papers for class.

For Tuesday February 1:
Read the papers:

H. Samet, S. Nutanong, B. C. Fruin
Dynamic presentation consistency issues in smartphone mapping apps.
Communications of the ACM, 59(9):58-67, September 2016.
Categories: [visualization, geographic information systems (GIS)]
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/pubs/cacm-dukingapi-dynamic.pdf

H. Samet, S. Nutanong, B. C. Fruin
Static presentation consistency issues in smartphone mapping apps.
Communications of the ACM, 59(5):88-98, May 2016.
Categories: [visualization, geographic information systems (GIS)]
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/pubs/cacm-dukingapi-static.pdf

For another and earlier version of this paper, see the following
technical report.

H. Samet, B. C. Fruin, S. Nutanong
Duking it out at the smartphone mobile app mapping API corral: Apple,
Google, and the competition.
In Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on
Mobile Geographic Information Systems (MobiGIS 2012), Redondo Beach,
CA, November 2012.
(2012 MobiGIS'2012 Best Paper Award)
Categories: [visualization, geographic information systems (GIS)]
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/pubs/dukingapi-small.pdf
For true size images, see
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/pubs/dukingapi-large.pdf

These are easy papers to read and interesting for looking at the
screenshots 

There are also slides at
http://www.cs.umd.edu/~hjs/slides/mobigis12.pdf