• openAccess   The CartoCiudad gamble on Open Source and value-added services 

      González, Alicia; Rodríguez, Antonio; Sevilla, Celia; Villalón, Miguel AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      CartoCiudad is a seamless cartographic database all over Spain where all road network is topologically structured and connected. This database, built from data managed by public organizations, is the result of harmonization ...
    • openAccess   Exploring the market potential for geo-ICT companies in relation to INSPIRE 

      Vancauwenberghe, Glenn; Cipriano, Piergiorgio; Craglia, Max AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The implementation of INSPIRE can bring new and interesting business opportunities to European geo-ICT companies. Until now, little information has been available on the participation of geo-ICT companies in the implementation ...
    • openAccess   Is this Twitter event a disaster? 

      Dittrich, André; Lucas, Christian AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Social media services such as Twitter have become an important channel for reporting real-world events. For example, they can describe the current situation during a disaster. The decisions in crises management are based ...
    • openAccess   Capability of movementfeatures extracted fromGPS trajectoriesforthe classification of fine‐grained behaviors 

      Soleymani, Ali; Van Loon, E. Emiel; Robert, Weibel AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Recent advances in tracking technologies provide an unprecedented opportunity for a better understanding of animal movement. Data from multiple sensors can be used to capture crucial factors deriving the behaviors of the ...
    • openAccess   Real-time detection of anomalous paths through networks 

      Prager, Steven D.; Wiegand, R. Paul AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The proliferation of increasingly inexpensive mobile devices capable of transmitting accurate positional information to other devices and servers has led to a variety of applications ranging from health situation monitoring ...
    • openAccess   Workforce Demand Assessment to Shape Future GI-Education – First Results of a Survey 

      Hofer, Barbara; Wallentin, Gudrun; Traun, Christoph; Strobl, Josef AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Geographic Information Science & Technology (GIS&T) is constantly evolving in scientific and technological terms. In 2006 the GIS&T Body of Knowledge (BoK) initiative has provided a domain inventory that serves as a ...
    • openAccess   It’s GIrls’ Day! What sketch maps show about girls’ spatial knowledge 

      Anacta, Vanessa Joy A.; Bartoschek, Thomas AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      This paper describes the analysis of sketch maps from girls who participated in the Girls’ Day annual event in Germany. The event caters to girls from Grades 7 – 10 as an opportunity to experience various jobs that might ...
    • openAccess   A Spatial Approach to Surveying Crime‐problematic Areas at the Street Level 

      Mburu, Lucy Waruguru; Zipf, Alexander AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Reaching far beyond the realm of geography and its related disciplines, spatial analysis and visualization tools now actively support the decision-making processes of law enforcement agencies. Interactive mapping of crime ...
    • openAccess   Latest Developments and activities in the Spanish NSDI 

      Rodríguez, Antonio AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      The Spanish NSDI Geoportal was opened on June 2004 and has evolving continuously with the support of a healthy collaborative community composed by public and private sector, academia and citizens. INSPIRE Directive has ...
    • openAccess   Spatiotemporal data complexity in electronic airport layout plan and its visualization 

      Parhi, Shyam AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Airports GIS is a web portal consisting of a few application modules. It allows authorized users of FAA (Federal Aviation Administration) to submit changes to airport data. One of these applications is electronic Airport ...
    • openAccess   Applying a CA-based model to explore land-use policy scenarios to contain sprawl in Thessaloniki, Greece 

      Lagarias, Apostolos; Prastacos, Poulicos AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      This study addresses the issue of urban sprawl through the application of a Cellular Automata (CA) based model in the area of Thessaloniki, Greece. To link macro-scale to micro-dynamic processes the model integrates a ...
    • openAccess   Publishing metadata of geospatial indicators as Linked Open Data: a policy-oriented approach 

      Tirry, Diederik; Crabbé, Ann; Steenberghen, Thérèse AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Geospatial indicators are becoming increasingly important for governments in monitoring and underpinning policy planning and political decision making. Currently, the discovery, viewing and sharing of these indicators is ...
    • openAccess   Queues in Ski Resort Graphs: the Ski-Optim Model 

      Barras, Tino; Doctor, Marut; Revilloud, Marc; Schumacher, Michael; Loubier, Jean-Christophe AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      It is rather unknown how skiers move inside ski areas. However, new data collection systems, such as RFID chips on ski passes (which allow counting skiers at the gates of the cableways), can be used to analyse the movement ...
    • openAccess   A conceptual representation for modelling the synchronization process of complex road networks 

      Arteaga Revert, María Dolores; Wachowicz, Monica AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
    • openAccess   Qualitative Representation of Dynamic Attributes of Trajectories 

      Paiva Nogueira, Tales; Martin, Hervé AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Trajectory dynamic characteristics may be a very relevant source of information to analyze the behaviour of moving objects. However, most of existing works on trajectory representation deal only with basic parameters of ...
    • openAccess   Planned vs. Real City: 3D GIS for Analyzing the Transformation of Urban Morphology 

      Garcia-Almirall, Pilar; Valls Dalmau, Francesc; Moix Bergada, Montserrat AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Cities are constantly evolving: buildings are built and demolished, altering the landscape of our cities; Urban Plans describe what we want our cities to be, undergoing revisions as we change our vision of the future of ...
    • openAccess   VGI Edit History Reveals Data Trustworthiness and User Reputation 

      D’Antonio, Fausto; Fogliaroni, Paolo; Kauppinen, Tomi AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is an approach to crowdsource information about geospatial features around us. People around the world are engaged with typing in their observations about the world (like locations ...
    • openAccess   Utilization of NoSQL database for disaster preparedness 

      Tampubolon, Winhard AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Nowadays, in the age of big data, geodatabases become more critical with respect to geospatial data volume, variety and capacity. It is required that geodatabases must be capable enough to cope with high stakes of geospatial ...
    • openAccess   A flexible framework for assessing the quality of crowdsourced data 

      Meek, Sam; Jackson, Mike J.; Leibovici, Didier G. AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Crowdsourcing as a means of data collection has produced previously unavailable data assets and enriched existing ones, but its quality can be highly variable. This presents several challenges to potential end users that ...
    • openAccess   Little Steps Towards Big Goals. Using Linked Data to Develop Next Generation Spatial Data Infrastructures (aka SDI 3.0) 

      Harvey, Francis; Jones, Jim; Scheider, Simon; Iwaniak, Adam; Kaczmarek, Iwona; Łukowicz, Jaromar; Strzelecki, Marek AGILE Digital Editions (2014-06)
      Society is moving at an increasing pace toward the next stage of the information society through linked data. Among the relevant developments in geographic information science, linked data approaches offer potential for ...