Urban and Regional Data Management: UDMS 2009 Annual

480 Pages·2009·13.913 MB·English

by  Alenka Krek, Massimo Rumor, Sisi Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel

URBAN AND REGIONAL DATA MANAGEMENT
UDMS ANNUAL 2009

PROCEEDINGS OF THE URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM 2009,
LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, 24–26 JUNE 2009
Urban and Regional
Data Management
UDMS Annual 2009
Editors
Alenka Krek
HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Massimo Rumor
University of Padova, Padova and University IUAV of Venice, Venice, Italy
Sisi Zlatanova & Elfriede Fendel
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
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Table of contents
Introduction ix
A. Krek, M. Rumor, S. Zlatanova & E.M. Fendel
Part I: Three dimensional modeling
Procedural façade textures for 3D city models 3
J. Bogdahn & V. Coors
A SWOT analysis on the implementation of Building Information Models
within the geospatial environment 15
U. Isikdag & S. Zlatanova
Design and development of a visualization tool for 3D geospatial data
in CityGML format 31
M. Rumor & E. Roccatello
Extruding building footprints to create topologically consistent 3D city models 39
H. Ledoux & M. Meijers
Attribute grammar for 3D city models 49
J. Schmittwilken, D. Dörschlag & L. Plümer
Developing 3D navigation and 3D buffering tools with geo-DBMS for
disaster management 59
I.A. Musliman, C. Tet-Khuan, A. Abdul-Rahman & V. Coors
Interoperable location based services for 3D cities on the web using user
generated content from OpenStreetMap 75
A. Schilling, M. Over, S. Neubauer, P. Neis, G. Walenciak & A. Zipf
Building feature service: Bring rich semantic building information into 3D city model 85
H. Wang, A. Hamilton & Y. Song
Part II: Spatial data infrastructures and databases
Complying with the INSPIRE implementation rules—a case study 97
P. Liljergren, A. Östman & F. Puigvert
“GeoPortal Network”—more process catalyst than project 105
J. Zevenbergen, H. Koerten, F. Welle Donker, J. Bulens,
M. Kuyper & M. Jellema
Managing geographical data in the French administration: le Conseil Général 115
N. Polombo
Quantifying transaction costs of geoinformation: Experiments in national
information structures in Sweden and Germany 129
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Standards and Spatial Data Infrastructures to help the navigation of
blind pedestrian in urban areas 139
R. Yaagoubi, G. Edwards & T. Badard
Establishing a sub-national SDI in Bahia state (Brazil)—its limits and possibilities 151
G.C. Pereira, C.A. Davis, Jr. & M.C.F. Rocha
N-Tuple property parcel database for South Florida: Development
and research potentials 159
D.C. Prosperi, C. Chagdes, J.E. Murillo & C.I. Cirloganu
Land market as indicator of spatial development trends: A case
of Slovenian rural land market 171
A. Lisec & S. Drobne
Modeling spatial constraints in conceptual database design of network applications 185
J. Lisboa Filho & S.M. Stempliuc
Are the morphing techniques useful for cartographic generalization? 195
D.N. Pantazis, B. Karathanasis, M. Kassoli & Ath. Koukofikis
Road junction generalization in large scale geodatabases 205
S. Savino, M. Rumor & I. Lissandron
Part III: Risk and disaster management
Supporting the development of shared situational awareness for civilian
crisis management with Geographic Information Science—research plan 217
K. Virrantaus, J. Mäkelä & U. Demšar
Cooperation among Dutch municipalities makes geo-information accessible
for regional disaster management organizations 231
M. Jellema
Information support for collaboration in emergency response 239
M.J. Kevany
Building ontologies for disaster management: Seismic risk domain 259
B. Murgante, G. Scardaccione & G.L. Casas
Development of a WPS process chaining tool and application in a disaster
management use case for urban areas 269
B. Stollberg & A. Zipf
Application of spatial data infrastructure and GIS for disaster management 277
C. Jacobs, A. Riedijk, A. Scotta, P. Brooijmans & H.J. Scholten
Assessing building vulnerability using synergistically remote sensing
and civil engineering 287
H. Taubenböck, A. Roth, S. Dech, H. Mehl, J.C. Münich, L. Stempniewski & J. Zschau
From mural map to GIS: Mapping urban vulnerability in Bucharest 301
S. Rufat
Part IV: Environmental planning, analysis and e-government
The use of GIS in landscape protection plan in Sicily 315
F. Martinico & S.D. La Rosa
Milano: Developments in the management of green areas through computerization 327
N. Cattaneo, F. Di Maria, F. Guzzetti, A. Privitera & P. Viskanic
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Understanding environmental data in Greece through national limitations
and epistemic communities 337
M. Kassoli & D.N. Pantazis
Benchmarking urban development indicators—comparing apples to apples 347
S. Fina
An empirical analysis of urban land-use dynamics 361
H.S. Hansen
Collaborative e-governance: Describing and pre-calibrating the digital
milieu in urban and regional planning 373
V. Lanza & D.C. Prosperi
Monitoring and assessment of urban environments using space-borne earth
observation data 385
T. Esch, S. Dech, A. Roth, M. Schmidt, H. Taubenböck, W. Heldens,
M. Thiel, M. Wurm & D. Klein
Ameliorating the spatial resolution of high resolution satellite data
for use in urban areas 399
K.G. Nikolakopoulos & P.I. Tsombos
Beyond the internet—increasing participation in community events by text messaging 409
C. Ellul, H. Rahemtulla & M. Haklay
Part V: Traffic and road monitoring
Survey, rendering and management of Pisa Municipality roads 421
G. Caroti & A. Piemonte
A spatio-temporal GIS-based multi agent traffic micro-simulation
for identifying the most important accident locations 427
M. Khalesian, M.R. Delavar & G.R. Shiran
Commuting, why a door-to-door approach? The situation in
Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic 439
I. Ivan
An approach for intelligent decision support system for urban traffic monitoring 455
A. Ionita, A. Zafiu, M. Dascalu, E. Franti & M. Visan
Author index 465
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Urban and Regional Data Management – Krek, Rumor, Zlatanova & Fendel (eds)
© 2009 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-0-415-55642-2
Introduction
A. Krek
HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
M. Rumor
University of Venice IUAV, Venice, Italy
S. Zlatanova & E.M. Fendel
Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands
Today’s cities, a multifaceted network, are vibrant and constantly changing environments. Natu-
ral and human activities change these environments and consequently impact the quality of life.
Analysing these dynamics leads to a better understanding of urban change and development. Col-
lecting and modelling the data requires a holistic understanding and adequate methods for broach-
ing research issues related to the representation of the real world. Data management is extending
towards three dimensional representations and requires models that can integrate data from various
applications. Data and information sharing is increasing in importance as more member states join
the European Union. In addition to appropriate standards, legal agreements should be achieved
as well as technology should be made available for the seamless exchange of spatial information
through Europe.
Research related to the management of urban data has a long tradition. The challenges include
a variety of interesting research questions related to the collection, storage, modelling, and visu-
alisation of the data representing the real world in a computer-based environment. The Urban
Data Management Symposium (UDMS) focuses on these issues since the first conference was
organised in 1971 in Bonn, Germany. Since then, 26 successful symposia were organised in dif-
ferent locations in Europe. UDMS aims at providing a forum to discuss urban planning processes,
exchange ideas, share information on available technologies and to demonstrate and promote suc-
cessful information systems in local and regional government. Initially the symposia concentrated
on urban applications, but this has expanded to regional and rural interests and studies. During
the last several symposia, urban and regional planning has been addressed in its complexity and
integrity. Since 1995 the UDMS society has been including Central and Eastern Europe in its
scope and interest. Experiences in Central Europe have shown the importance of solving land
market problems in order to establish a free market economy. With the expansion of the European
Union, UDMS is attempting to provide an open discussion on challenges in the transition phases
and faster economical growth as well. With this ideal in mind, the 27th UDMS ´09 symposium was
organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia, one of the new members of the united European Union.
This volume contains 40 articles (of the 60 presented at the symposium in Ljubljana), which
have been selected after extensive reviews facilitated by at least two independent reviewers. The
articles are organised in the following five parts: Three Dimensional Models, Spatial Data Infra-
structures and Databases, Risk and Disaster Management, Environmental Planning, Analysis and
E-government, and Road and Traffic Monitoring.
One of the main topics of the UDMS ’09 is three dimensional (3D) models. In the past, the
research on three dimensional modelling has concentrated mostly on visualisation and the pos-
sibilities to facilitate visual impact assessment and communication among individuals involved
in city planning and design. Although these aspects remain important, new research topics are
emerging, such as the semantic aspects of urban models to improve data sharing and integration
across domains. Research and developments in automatic texture extraction continues, which is
important for creating realistic 3D city models. One of the articles presents a flexible way of
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