Advances in Cartography and GIScience. Volume 1: Selection from ICC 2011, Paris

551 Pages·2011·32.662 MB·English

by  Stefan Hahmann, Dirk Burghardt (auth.), Anne Ruas (eds.)

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Subseries: Publications of the International Cartographic
Association (ICA)
Series Editors:WilliamCartwright,GeorgGartner,LiqiuMeng,
MichaelP. Peterson

Anne Ruas
Editor
Advances in Cartography
and GIScience. Volume 1
Selection from ICC 2011, Paris
Editor
Anne Ruas
Laboratoire COGIT- IGN
73 Avenue de Paris
94160 Saint Mandé
France
[email protected]
ISSN1863-2246 e-ISSN1863-2351
ISBN978-3-642-19142-8 e-ISBN978-3-642-19143-5
DOI10.1007/978-3-642-19143-5
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Foreword
The International Cartographic Association (ICA) has existed since 1959.
Initially centered on Cartography, the themes of the Association have changed
from year to year integrating new research and technical domains such as web
services, location based services or the digitalization and analysis of historical
maps. The ICA has 28 commissions and organizes an international conference on
Cartography and GIS every two years. This international conference lasts 5 days
and gathers between 1000 and 2000 attendants. The ten previous conferences were
in Bournemouth (1991), Köln (1993), Barcelona (1995), Stockholm (1997),
Ottawa (1999), Beijing (2001), Durban (2003), A Coruña (2005), Moscow (2007)
and Santiago de Chile (2009). In 2011 the ICA conference takes place in Paris and
for the first time the best ICC papers are published in the new Springer subseries,
Publications of the ICA.
For the ICC2011, a large international and French scientific committee has
been appointed to select the papers and the poster presentations. More than 900
papers were submitted, among which 245 papers were entered for possible ICA
Journal or Springer book publication. Of these 245 long papers, only 33% were
accepted by means of a double blind review process to ensure a top quality publi-
cation. These proceedings thus present the very best ICC2011 papers. The large
number of submissions illustrates the importance of the GIS and mapping
community all over the world, and we believe that this volume of proceedings is a
valuable mirror of our community.

The book is composed of 62 papers, organized in 12 sections shared in two
volumes. The digital version of this proceeding is available on Springer web site.

The first papers deal with map design and analysis. They present methods to
map acoustic information, to analyze semantic information via cloud visualization
techniques or even to analyze society through the legend of their topographic
maps. The second section deals with the use and user issues, focusing not only on
the analysis of user needs to identify map content but also on the usability evalua-
tion of geoservices. Section three highlights collaboration tools and processes to
either integrate different data sets, or alternatively to propose collaborative and inter-
active tabletops. Section four focuses on solutions of how to find the appropriate
data or services once a need has been defined. Solutions mainly lay on the consti-
tution of ontologies of geographical concepts, names or services. Section five is
devoted to generalization. This large section (9 papers) illustrates the dynamism of
the research community in this field, encompassing algorithmic solutions in order
to select points, to generalize river and road networks, isobathymetric lines or
polygons. A further paper describes a comprehensive method to combine different
generalization processes.
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The second volume begins with papers related to Map GIS and Education
including, for example, the use of Chernhoff face (a schematic human face) to rep-
resent variables, and the use of a web server to teach GIS. Section seven presents
7 papers on historical data. There is a real challenge to explore, digitize and ana-
lyse historical data. Another paper presents, for example, a GIS for archaeology to
support excavation site research. Others provide solutions for the referencing of
historical maps so as to facilitate the access and analysis of such data. Section
eight presents 2 papers on map projections, one using an empirical process to dis-
cover the best projection for existing maps. Section nine presents current work on
planet and space cartography, encompassing the conception of appropriate sym-
bology, the integration of multisource data or the determination of nomenclature
for extraterrestrial landscapes. The last three sections focus on specific analysis.
Section ten describes methods to create information from image processing or to
map the resulting information. Section eleven is centered on DTM and terrain
analysis, with a paper concentrating on the analysis of glacial areas. Last but not
least, section twelve offers models and methods to study specific applications such
as urban growth, traffic, epidemiology or language distribution. Some simulation
methods are discussed here. Urban growth models including road network expan-
sion and land use development are presented.

The extraordinary diversity of papers presented in these proceedings illustrates
the dynamic nature and creativity of cartography and GIS today. We hope this
volume will be the first of a long and valuable series.
Table of Content
VOLUME 1
Map Design and Map Analysis 1
Maple – a Web Map Service for Verbal Visualisation using Tag Clouds 3
Generated from Map Feature Frequencies
Stefan Hahmann, Dirk Burghardt
Audio Cartography: Visual Encoding of Acoustic Parameters 13
A.-L. Kornfeld, J. Schiewe, J. Dykes
Classifying, Analysing and Experiencing Maps- A tentative humanistic 33
approach
Janos Szegö
Aesthetic Aspects of Early Maps. Inspiration from Notes 53
by Univ. Prof. Karel Kuchař
Jan D. Bláha
Representations, Diagrams and Visualizations of Space and Place 73
William Cartwright
A Map in a Movie – the Role and the Usage 91
Lucie Friedmanová, Karel Stanĕk
A Hazy Mirror? Testing the Reflection of Society in State Topographic Maps 109
Alexander J Kent
Map Collecting Practices 133
Chris Perkins
The Atlas Toolbox: Concept and Development of a Rule based Map 147
Component for a GIS-VIS Production Environment
Hartmut Asche, Rita Engemaier
Use and User Issues 161
What do People prefer and What is more effective for Maps: a Decision 163
making Test
André Luiz Alencar de Mendonça, Luciene Stamato Delazari
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On-demand Cartography for Trekkers 183
Catherine Dominguès, Charlotte Hoarau
Benefits through Linking of analogue and digital Maps 205
Christian Pauschert, Emanuel Riplinger, Carola Tiede, Volker Coors
Understanding the Influence of specific Web GIS Attributes 219
in the Formation of non-experts’ Trust Perceptions
Artemis Skarlatidou, Jessica Wardlaw, Muki Haklay and Tao Cheng
Usability Evaluation of a Map-Based Multi-Publishing Service 239
Hanna-Marika Flink, Juha Oksanen, Ulla Pyysalo, Mikko Rönneberg
and L. Tiina Sarjakoski
Tool and Processes to Collaborate 259
Contemporary and Collaborative Web Concepts as part 261
of a Geo-Knowledge Tool to Assist Park Management
Monique Elsley, William Cartwright
Integrating User-contributed Geospatial Data with assistive 279
Geotechnology Using a localized Gazetteer
Matthew T. Rice, William C. Hammill, Ahmad O. Aburizaiza, Sara Schwarz,
R. Daniel Jacobson
Augmenting Quantum-GIS for collaborative and interactive Tabletops 293
A. Viard, G. Bailly, É.Lecolinet, E Fritsch
Looking for the appropriate data or services 309
Ontology-Based Discovering of Geographic Databases Content 311
Ammar Mechouche, Nathalie Abadie, Emeric Prouteau, Sébastien Mustière
Place Names Ontologies 331
Željka Jakir, Željko Hećimović, Zvonko Štefan
Standardization of geographical Names in Croatia 349
Željko Hećimović, Zvonko Štefan, Željka Jakir
Location and Cartographic Integration for Multi-Providers Location 365
Based Services
Roula Karam, Frank Favetta, Rima Kilany, Robert Laurini
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Generalisation 385
Interactive Scale-dependent multidimensional Point Data Selection using 387
enhanced Polarization Transformation
Stefan Peters
Automated Delineation of Stream Centerlines for the USGS National 409
Hydrography Dataset
C. Anderson-Tarver, B.P. Buttenfield, L.V. Stanislawski, and J.M. Koontz
Pattern Recognition and Typification of Ditches 425
Sandro Savino, Massimo Rumor, Matteo Zanon
Model Generalization of the Hydrography Network in the CARGEN 439
Project
Sandro Savino, Massimo Rumor, Fabio Canton, Giovanni Langiù,
Marco Reineri
Evaluation of Properties to determine the Importance of individual 459
Roads for Map Generalization
Qi Zhou, Zhilin Li
A multi-agent System Approach for Feature-driven Generalization 477
of Isobathymetric Line
Xunruo Zhang, Eric Guilbert
Multiscale Hypsometric Mapping 497
Timofey Samsonov
Best Pratices for Polygon Generalisation from medium to small Scale 521
in a GIS Framework
Andriani Skopeliti
CollaGen: Collaboration between automatic cartographic Generalisation 541
Processes
Guillaume Touya, Cécile Duchêne