Jonathan Quaye-ballard is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of GIS and Remote Sensing, College of Earth Science and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing, China. He is a full-time Lecturer in cartographic visualization, system analysis, and surveying and mapping at the Department of Geomatic Engineering, College of Engineering, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana.