The browser you are using is not supported by this website. All versions of Internet Explorer are no longer supported, either by us or Microsoft (read more here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-ie-support).

Please use a modern browser to fully experience our website, such as the newest versions of Edge, Chrome, Firefox or Safari etc.

Ali Mansourian

Ali Mansourian

Professor

Ali Mansourian

Automatic integration of spatial data in viewing services

Author

  • Ara Toomanian
  • Lars Harrie
  • Ali Mansourian
  • Petter Pilesjö

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