A Framework for Collaborative Mapping
SketchMapia
- Status
- finished
Description
SketchMapia is a framework that contains the complete workflow of collection, recognition, interpretation, integration and visualization of sketch maps. In the context of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), SketchMapia employs sketch maps to contribute geographic information. It opens more capabilities of Geographic Information Systems (GISs) to the general public. In spite people who have difficulties to draw a map, all others can use the sketching interface that SketchMapia provides to produce user-generated spatial contents.However, due to human cognition, sketch maps are incomplete,distorted, schematized, and therefore not as accurate as metric maps. Thisproject develops a qualitative computational model to represent sketch mapsin a computer-understandable way. SketchMapia integrates information fromvarious sketch maps and metric maps into one data repository which can bequeried by users via a query-by-sketch interface. Finally, spatialinformation from sketch maps is integrated with quantitative data to berepresented on metric maps. Persons
- Sahib Jan
- Prof. Dr. Angela Schwering
- Dr. Jia Wang, PhD
Publications
- . . ‘Cognitively Plausible Representations for the Alignment of Sketch and Geo-referenced Maps.’ In: Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS-2017) 14, No. 1. doi: 10.5311/JOSIS.2017.14.297.
- . . ‘Spatial Rules for Capturing Qualitatively Equivalent Configurations in Sketch maps.’ Contributed to the 1st Workshop on Logics for Qualitative Modelling and Reasoning (LQMR'15), Lodz, Poland, 13-16 September, 2015.
- . ‘SketchMapia: a Framework for Qualitative Alignment of Sketch Maps and Metric Maps (got 2nd best poster award).’ contributed to the 18th AGILE-15 conference on Geographic Information Science, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, .
- . . ‘Invariant Spatial Information in sketch maps - a study of survey sketch maps of urban areas.’ Journal of Spatial Information Science (JOSIS) 11: 31–52. doi: 10.5311/JOSIS.2015.11.2.
- . . ‘Left-right relations for Qualitative Representation and Alignment of Planar Spatial Networks.’ Contributed to the 14th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
- . . ‘RCC11: A Finer Topological Representation for the Alignment of Regions in Sketch Maps .’ Contributed to the 28th International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning (QR15), Minneapolis, MN, USA.
- . . ‘Ordering: A Reliable Qualitative Information for the Alignment of Sketch and Metric Maps.’ In International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence, (IJCINI-2014). 8, No. 1: 68–79. doi: 10.4018/ijcini.2014010105.
- . . ‘Qualitative Representations of Schematized and Distorted Street Segments in Sketch Maps.’ Contributed to the Spatial Cognition 2014 Bremen, Germany, 15-19 September 2014, Bremen, Germany, 15-19 September 2014.
- . . ‘SketchMapia: Qualitative Representations for the Alignment of Sketch and Metric Maps.’ Spatial Cognition and Computation: An Interdisciplinary Journal .
- . . ‘Qualitative Representations of Extended Spatial Objects in Sketch Maps.’ Contributed to the 17th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science (AGILE,2014), Castellón, Spain.
- . . ‘Matching Qualitative Spatial Scene Descriptions á la Tabu.’ In Advances in Soft Computing and Its Applications, edited by , 388–402. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer.
- . . ‘An Empirical Study on Pertinent Aspects of Sketch Maps for Navigation.’ International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence 7, No. 4. doi: 10.4018/ijcini.2013100102.
- . . ‘A region-based method for sketch map segmentation.’ In Graphics Recognition. New Trends and Challenges, edited by , 1–14. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-36824-0_1.
- . . ‘Combining DRA and CYC into a Network Friendly Calculus.’ Contributed to the 20th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2012), Montpellier, France.
- . . ‘Integration of Qualitative Spatial Reasoning into GIS- An Example with SparQ.’ In Geoinformatik 2011 - Geochange, edited by , 63–70. Heidelberg: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
- . ‘An Empirical Study on Relevant Aspects for Sketch Map Alignment.’ In Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World, edited by , 497–518. Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-19789-5_25.
- (Eds.): . Understanding and Processing Sketch Maps - Proceedings of the COSIT 2011 Workshop. : Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
- . . ‘Automatic street graph construction in sketch maps.’ In Proceedings of the 8th Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition, edited by , 275–284. Münster, Germany. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-20844-7_28.
- . . ‘A System for Automatic Localization and Recognition of Sketch Map Objects.’ In Understanding and Processing Sketch Maps - Proceedings of the COSIT 2011 Workshop, 11––20.: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
- . . ‘Multi-Sketch Alignment in the Context of Volunteered Geographic Information.’ Contributed to the 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- . . ‘Towards cognitively plausible spatial representations for sketch map alignment.’ In Spatial Information Theory, edited by , 20–39. Berlin Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-23196-4_2.
- . ‘A Study on Empirically Relevant Aspects for Qualitative Alignment of Sketch Maps.’ Contributed to the GIScience, Zürich.
- ‘Aligning Sketch Maps and Metric Maps.’ contributed to the Geoinformatik 2010, Kiel, .
- . . ‘A Formal Logic Language for Sketch Representation and Analogy.’ In Proceedings of the GIScience 2010 Doctor Colloquium, edited by , 81–86. Heidelberg: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft.
- . . ‘Graph-based registration of partial images of city maps using geometric hashing.’ Contributed to the Proc. Of GbR, Venice.
- . ‘The Accuracy of Sketched Spatial Relations: How Cognitive Errors Influence Sketch Representation .’ In Presenting Spatial Information: Granularity, Relevance, and Integration, 40–47.