Ali Mansourian
Professor
Automatic integration of spatial data in viewing services
Author
Summary, in English
Geoportals are increasingly used for searching, viewing, and downloading spatial data. This study concerns methods to improve the visual presentation in viewing services. When spatial data in a viewing service are taken from more than one source there are often syntactic, semantic, topological, and geometrical conflicts that prevent maps being fully consistent. In this study we extend a standard view service with methods to solve these conflicts. The methods are based on: (1) semantic labels of data in basic services, (2) a rule-base in the portal layer, and (3) integration methods in the portal layer. To evaluate the methodology, we use a case study for adding historical borders on top of a base-map. The results show that the borders are overlaid on top of the map without conflicts, and that a consistent map is generated automatically as an output. The methodology can be generalized to add other types of data on top of a base-map.
Department/s
- Dept of Physical Geography and Ecosystem Science
- Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies (CMES)
- MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World
- eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
Publishing year
2013
Language
English
Pages
43-58
Publication/Series
Journal of Spatial Information Science
Volume
6
Issue
2013
Document type
Journal article
Publisher
University of Maine
Topic
- Physical Geography
Keywords
- Cartography
- Conflation
- Expert system
- Geometrical inconsistency
- Geoportals
- SDI
- Semantic labeling
- Topological conflicts
Status
Published
ISBN/ISSN/Other
- ISSN: 1948-660X