scholarly journals Visualisation of Spatial Data Uncertainty. A Case Study of a Database of Topographic Objects

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marek Ślusarski ◽  
Magdalena Jurkiewicz

The Database of Topographic Objects (DTO) is the official database of Poland for collecting and providing spatial data with the detail level of a topographic map. Polish national DTOs manage information about the spatial location and attribute values of geographic objects. Data in the DTO are the starting point for geographic information systems (GISs) for various central and local governments as well as private institutions. Every set of spatial data based on measurement-derived data is susceptible to uncertainty. Therefore, the widespread awareness of data uncertainty is of vital importance to all GIS users. Cartographic visualisation techniques are an effective approach to informing spatial dataset users about the uncertainty of the data. The objective of the research was to define a set of methods for visualising the DTO data uncertainty using expert know-how and experience. This set contains visualisation techniques for presenting three types of uncertainty: positional, attribute, and temporal. The positional uncertainty for point objects was presented using visual variables, object fill with hue colour and lightness, and glyphs placed at map symbol positions. The positional uncertainty for linear objects was presented using linear object contours made of dotted lines and glyphs at vertices. Fill grain density and contour crispness were employed to represent the positional uncertainty for surface objects. The attribute value uncertainty and the temporal uncertainty were represented using fill grain density and fill colour value. The proposed set of the DTO uncertainty visualisation methods provides a finite array of visualisation techniques that can be tested and juxtaposed. The visualisation methods were comprehensively evaluated in a survey among experts who use spatial databases. Results of user preference analysis have demonstrated that the set of the DTO data uncertainty visualisation techniques may be applied to the full extent. The future implementation of the proposed visualisation methods in GIS databases will help data users interpret values correctly.

2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wulan Yustia Sahroni

<div class="WordSection1"><p class="JudulABSInd"><strong>                                                                                     ABSTRACT</strong></p><p class="abstrak">It has been almost ten years since the issuance of Presidential Decree No. 85 Year 2007 on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI) as a milestone of data sharing in Indonesia. Even since Law No. 4 of 2011 on Geospatial Information was established, the implementation of the NSDI among institutions and local governments has still not been effective yet, which can be seen from the amount of participants in Ina-Geoportal. Not all agencies and local government involved and active in the data sharing through Ina-Geoportal. The study was conducted  in order to identified the problems causing the ineffectiveness of data sharing and give the recommendations as solutions, taking the case in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry and the Provincial Government of West Java. The problems will be analyzed from the component of policy, institutional, technology, standard, and human resources. Method conducted are in a form of interviews, questionnaire, content analysis, and statistical descriptive to determine the rank of each component in each agency. The result showed that the effectiveness of data sharing in three agencies are 67,36% with institutional as the most ineffective and technology as a good and supportive component. Provide a road-map for the clarity of the work in each agency, applying metadata standard and feature catalogue of Indonesia, complements a topographic map as a reference map, and a strong commitment from all parties involved are the recommendations given so that the process of data sharing runs effectively in support of national development planning.</p><p class="abstrak"><strong>Keywords</strong>: spatial data sharing, NSDI, policy, regulation, content analysis, descriptive statistic</p><p align="center"><strong><em>ABSTRAK</em></strong></p><p class="Abstrakeng"><em>Sudah hampir sepuluh tahun sejak diterbitkannya Peraturan Presiden Nomor 85 Tahun 2007 tentang Infrastruktur Data Spasial Nasional (IDSN) sebagai tonggak berjalannya data sharing di Indonesia. Bahkan sejak Undang-undang Nomor 4 tahun 2011 tentang Informasi Geospasial diresmikan sebagai payung hukum yang lebih kuat, pelaksanaan NSDI antar instansi dan daerah belum berjalan dengan efektif, terlihat dari jumlah partisipan dalam Ina-Geoportal sebagai infrastruktur berbagi pakai. Belum seluruh instansi dan pemerintah daerah terlibat dalam Ina-Geoportal. Penelitian ini ditulis untuk mengidentifikasi permasalahan penyebab belum efektifnya berbagi-pakai data di Kementerian Lingkungan Hidup dan Kehutanan dan Pemerintah Provinsi Jawa Barat, serta memberikan rekomendasi sebagai solusi dalam komponen kebijakan, pengaturan kelembagaan, teknologi, standar, dan sumber daya manusia. Metode deksriptif kuantitatif dalam bentuk interview, kuesioner, analisis konten, dan deskriptif statistik dilakukan untuk mengetahui peringkat setiap komponen dalam pelaksanaan berbagi pakai di tiap instansi. Hasil analisa menunjukkan tingkat efektivitas berbagi pakai di tiga instansi tersebut sebesar 67,36% dimana pengaturan kelembagaan menjadi komponen yang dianggap paling tidak menunjang dan teknologi menjadi komponen yang paling baik dari sudut pandang pengguna. Rekomendasi diberikan sebagai solusi untuk setiap permasalahan dalam tiap komponen, diantaranya perlu adanya road-map untuk kejelasan pekerjaan, menerapkan standar metadata dan katalog unsur geografi indonesia, melengkapi peta Rupabumi Indonesia sebagai acuan pemetaan, dan komitmen kuat dari seluruh pihak yang terlibat. Rekomendasi ini diberikan untuk menunjang kegiatan berbagi pakai yang efektif dalam mendukung perencanaan pembangunan nasional.</em></p><p><strong><em>Kata Kunci</em></strong><em>:</em><em>    </em><em>berbagi pakai data spasial, NSDI, </em><em>kebijakan, peraturan, perundangan, analisa konten</em><em>, statistik deskriptif</em></p></div>


2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 388-407
Author(s):  
Patricio Gigli ◽  
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Donatela Orsi ◽  
Marisel Martín Aramburú ◽  
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This paper aims at describing the experience of the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program (Ciudades para Emprender or CPE) of the National Directorate of Community and Human Capital (which belongs to the SEPYME), National Ministry of Production. This paper starts from the premise that entrepreneurship takes place at the most micro level of the offer and, therefore, is a concept associated with the characteristics of the environment closest to that offer: the local territory. However, there is little history in the country of public policies relating the issue of entrepreneurship with the local management. That is why we take as a starting point the conceptualization of the chosen framework: local governments and the development issue, seen from the perspective of entrepreneurships. Moreover, an overview is given on the structural characteristics of municipalities in Argentina. In addition, some international experiences and attempts to promote entrepreneurship at a national level are analyzed. Finally, the Cities for Entrepreneurs Program (CPE) is outlined, based on a summary of the diagnoses of the Entrepreneurial Ecosystems of the selected cities and the tools used and their execution status at the time of publication of this paper.


2016 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Lorek

Abstract The article presents a framework for integrating historical sources with elements of the geographical space recorded in unique cartographic materials. The aim of the project was to elaborate a method of integrating spatial data sources that would facilitate studying and presenting the phenomena of economic history. The proposed methodology for multimedia integration of old materials made it possible to demonstrate the successive stages of the transformation which was characteristic of the 19th-century space. The point of reference for this process of integrating information was topographic maps from the first half of the 19th century, while the research area comprised the castle complex in Kórnik together with the small town – the pre-industrial landscape in Wielkopolska (Greater Poland). On the basis of map and plan transformation, graphic processing of the scans of old drawings, texture mapping of the facades of historic buildings, and a 360° panorama, the source material collected was integrated. The final product was a few-minute-long video, composed of nine sequences. It captures the changing form of the castle building together with its facades, the castle park, and its further topographic and urban surroundings, since the beginning of the 19th century till the present day. For a topographic map sheet dating back to the first half of the 19th century, in which the hachuring method had been used to present land relief, a terrain model was generated. The transition from parallel to bird’s-eye-view perspective served to demonstrate the distinctive character of the pre-industrial landscape.


Author(s):  
T. Kliment ◽  
V. Cetl ◽  
H. Tomič ◽  
J. Lisiak ◽  
M. Kliment

Nowadays, the availability of authoritative geospatial features of various data themes is becoming wider on global, regional and national levels. The reason is existence of legislative frameworks for public sector information and related spatial data infrastructure implementations, emergence of support for initiatives as open data, big data ensuring that online geospatial information are made available to digital single market, entrepreneurs and public bodies on both national and local level. However, the availability of authoritative reference spatial data linking the geographic representation of the properties and their owners are still missing in an appropriate quantity and quality level, even though this data represent fundamental input for local governments regarding the register of buildings used for property tax calculations, identification of illegal buildings, etc. We propose a methodology to improve this situation by applying the principles of participatory GIS and VGI used to collect observations, update authoritative datasets and verify the newly developed datasets of areas of buildings used to calculate property tax rates issued to their owners. The case study was performed within the district of the City of Požega in eastern Croatia in the summer 2015 and resulted in a total number of 16072 updated and newly identified objects made available online for quality verification by citizens using open source geospatial technologies.


2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Mahbub Alam ◽  
Luis Torgo ◽  
Albert Bifet

Due to the surge of spatio-temporal data volume, the popularity of location-based services and applications, and the importance of extracted knowledge from spatio-temporal data to solve a wide range of real-world problems, a plethora of research and development work has been done in the area of spatial and spatio-temporal data analytics in the past decade. The main goal of existing works was to develop algorithms and technologies to capture, store, manage, analyze, and visualize spatial or spatio-temporal data. The researchers have contributed either by adding spatio-temporal support with existing systems, by developing a new system from scratch, or by implementing algorithms for processing spatio-temporal data. The existing ecosystem of spatial and spatio-temporal data analytics systems can be categorized into three groups, (1) spatial databases (SQL and NoSQL), (2) big spatial data processing infrastructures, and (3) programming languages and GIS software. Since existing surveys mostly investigated infrastructures for processing big spatial data, this survey has explored the whole ecosystem of spatial and spatio-temporal analytics. This survey also portrays the importance and future of spatial and spatio-temporal data analytics.


2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-78
Author(s):  
Sławomir Palicki

Abstract Polish cities have been at the stage of a dynamic suburban development for over a decade (which has led to the phenomenon of urban sprawl beyond any control). The population of big urban areas, together with their agglomerations is continuously increasing; however, migration tendencies towards suburban areas are strong as well. In such a situation, the question arises regarding the possibilities and the methods of suppressing the outflow of people to the neighboring communities, and once again, making the city an attractive place to live. The attempt to explain such an issue requires research into both the housing infrastructure and its inhabitants. Poznan has been severely affected by suburbanization. The diagnosis and assessment of Poznan housing resources and the preferences of its inhabitants are the starting point for taking further steps in making the housing conditions more attractive. The article shows the initial results of widespread research regarding housing in the capital city of the Wielkopolska Province (comprising over 2,500 households). A similar study for the entire agglomeration (Poznan County) is due to be completed soon. It will allow for a comparative analysis and formulating recommendations regarding the conditions and the direction of changes on the real estate market which would increase the attractiveness of central cities suffering from suburbanization. In a wider context, the publication might be seen as an analysis of one of the elements of modern urban changes, such as either market driven, or free and spontaneous processes of urban sprawl, and conscious actions taken by local governments (together with developers) regarding the integrated urban revitalization policy.


2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 178-182
Author(s):  
Andrzej Zygmuniak ◽  
Violetta Sokoła-Szewioła

Abstract This study is aimed at exposing differences between two data models in case of code lists values provided there. The first of them is an obligatory one for managing Geodesic Register of Utility Networks databases in Poland [9] and the second is the model originating from the Technical Guidelines issued to the INSPIRE Directive. Since the second one mentioned is the basis for managing spatial databases among European parties, correlating these two data models has an effect in easing the way of harmonizing and, in consequence, exchanging spatial data. Therefore, the study presents the possibilities of increasing compatibility between the values of the code lists concerning attributes for objects provided in both models. In practice, it could lead to an increase of the competitiveness of entities managing or processing such databases and to greater involvement in scientific or research projects when it comes to the mining industry. Moreover, since utility networks located on mining areas are under particular protection, the ability of making them more fitted to their own needs will make it possible for mining plants to exchange spatial data in a more efficient way.


2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-28
Author(s):  
Arief Susanto

Geographic Information Systems ( GIS abbreviated as Geographic Information System ) is a specialized information system that manages data having spatial information . Most to process data in the form of GIS data are still many who use desktop application or can only run on one computer while the more advanced development requires us to produce information more easily is to develop a GIS online ( via the Internet ) and can be accessed Anywhere You . This application is designed using DFD modeling and created using the programming language PHP with MySQL database as well as utilizing Google Map API . As well as to facilitate the collection of data by the field of local government development . Moreover , the existence of GIS aims to help local governments in the search for building plots parcels and ownership of data previously not been structured to be more structural and facilitate spatial data collection .


2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Uwe Rieger

<p>With the current exponential growth in the sector of Spatial Data Technology and Mixed Reality display devises we experience an increasing overlap of the physical and digital world. Next to making data spatially visible the attempt is to connect digital information with physical properties. Over the past years a number of research institutions have been laying the ground for these developments. In contemporary architecture architectural design the dominant application of data technology is connected to graphical presentation, form finding and digital fabrication.<br />The <em>arc/sec Lab for Digital Spatial Operations </em>at the University of Auckland takes a further step. The Lab explores concepts for a new condition of buildings and urban patterns in which digital information is connected with spatial appearance and linked to material properties. The approach focuses on the step beyond digital re-presentation and digital fabrication, where data is re-connected to the multi-sensory human perceptions and physical skills. The work at the Lab is conducted in a cross disciplinary design environment and based on experiential investigations. The arc/sec Lab utilizes large-scale interactive installations as the driving vehicle for the exploration and communication of new dimensions in architectural space. The experiments are aiming to make data “touchable” and to demonstrate real time responsive environments. In parallel they are the starting point for both the development of practice oriented applications and speculation on how our cities and buildings might change in the future.<br />The article gives an overview of the current experiments being undertaken at the arc/sec Lab. It discusses how digital technologies allow for innovation between the disciplines by introducing real time adaptive behaviours to our build environment and it speculates on the type of spaces we can construct when <em>digital matter </em>is used as a new dynamic building material.</p>


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