This document presents a 3D web-based platform developed to allow cataloging and access of multimedia resources related to cultural heritage sites and large areas. The platform includes a 3D geobrowser to interactively access digital repositories of information and metadata. The solution was showcased at the "Festival dell'Economia" in Trento, Italy, allowing visitors to explore information across the autonomous province of Trento via a large, high-resolution panoramic display. The platform integrated terrain models, historical maps, databases of points of interest, and panoramas to provide an engaging interactive experience for learning about the cultural and economic heritage of the region.
1) The document discusses the need for geographic intelligence and electronic geographic briefs (eGeoBriefs) to make better, faster decisions based on comprehensive geospatial information.
2) It proposes the creation of a "SAGE" (Specialist Advisor on Geography and the Environment), which would be an artificial intelligence with a vast knowledge base of geographic, environmental, historical and policy information to assist with strategic decision-making.
3) To support capabilities like SAGE, the document argues for building a geospatial information infrastructure to organize and provide access to the growing amounts of geographic data needed for modern planning and operations.
The document describes Map Kibera, a project that digitally mapped the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya using open source tools like OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi. Local residents were trained to collect geographic data using GPS devices and map important community locations and services. The project also launched Voice of Kibera, a citizen journalism website that allows residents to report news and issues via SMS or an online form and have them geographically mapped.
The document discusses the rationale and design goals for a proposed National Map of Australia. The National Map is an initiative to provide easy access to authoritative and other spatial data from all levels of government through an open framework. It will allow users to access maps, imagery, and geospatial data from various agencies through a single web interface. The proposed architecture is an in-browser system that connects users to multiple data services from different jurisdictions and vendors using open source mapping libraries. It will support adding additional data services and user-generated content over time.
Len Bundra, the IT and GIS director for Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority, built a free public web map in 2004 that included layers of infrastructure, imagery, and other data. This map proved invaluable for emergency response during and after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when Bundra updated it with post-storm imagery and flood data. It became a one-stop resource for many agencies and helped with tasks like utility restoration and demolition planning. Bundra's creation of the map showed that "if you build it, they will become aware" of its usefulness.
The document discusses maps and geographic information systems. It defines maps as any geographic image of the environment, including mental maps held solely in our minds. Traditionally, cartography focused on producing maps through scaling, generalization, symbolization and transformation. However, geographic information systems now provide capabilities for more sophisticated mapping and analysis by combining automated mapping with linkages that allow complex queries, overlays and spatial modeling. The document argues future systems should address more complex geographic problems and better communicate results using various methods.
This document discusses Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) and its applicability in Hong Kong. PPGIS aims to empower marginalized groups by incorporating local knowledge into spatial planning through public engagement with GIS technology. The key elements of PPGIS include participation, usability, visualization, and interactivity. While PPGIS has been used in land use planning in Hong Kong, there is still room for improved interactivity and participation compared to traditional top-down planning approaches.
The document discusses how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology has become integral to transportation planning and is now increasingly being used in business intelligence. It outlines how GIS has supported transportation planning for many years by helping integrate spatial data to analyze movement and plan infrastructure. Governments were early adopters of GIS due to the large amounts of spatial data they collect. The document then explains how business drives transportation of people and goods, and businesses are now recognizing the benefits of GIS for location analytics to better understand patterns and customer behavior. As spatial data and location-aware applications increase, GIS is emerging as a key tool for business decision making.
1) The document discusses the need for geographic intelligence and electronic geographic briefs (eGeoBriefs) to make better, faster decisions based on comprehensive geospatial information.
2) It proposes the creation of a "SAGE" (Specialist Advisor on Geography and the Environment), which would be an artificial intelligence with a vast knowledge base of geographic, environmental, historical and policy information to assist with strategic decision-making.
3) To support capabilities like SAGE, the document argues for building a geospatial information infrastructure to organize and provide access to the growing amounts of geographic data needed for modern planning and operations.
The document describes Map Kibera, a project that digitally mapped the Kibera slum in Nairobi, Kenya using open source tools like OpenStreetMap and Ushahidi. Local residents were trained to collect geographic data using GPS devices and map important community locations and services. The project also launched Voice of Kibera, a citizen journalism website that allows residents to report news and issues via SMS or an online form and have them geographically mapped.
The document discusses the rationale and design goals for a proposed National Map of Australia. The National Map is an initiative to provide easy access to authoritative and other spatial data from all levels of government through an open framework. It will allow users to access maps, imagery, and geospatial data from various agencies through a single web interface. The proposed architecture is an in-browser system that connects users to multiple data services from different jurisdictions and vendors using open source mapping libraries. It will support adding additional data services and user-generated content over time.
Len Bundra, the IT and GIS director for Toms River Municipal Utilities Authority, built a free public web map in 2004 that included layers of infrastructure, imagery, and other data. This map proved invaluable for emergency response during and after Hurricane Sandy in 2012, when Bundra updated it with post-storm imagery and flood data. It became a one-stop resource for many agencies and helped with tasks like utility restoration and demolition planning. Bundra's creation of the map showed that "if you build it, they will become aware" of its usefulness.
The document discusses maps and geographic information systems. It defines maps as any geographic image of the environment, including mental maps held solely in our minds. Traditionally, cartography focused on producing maps through scaling, generalization, symbolization and transformation. However, geographic information systems now provide capabilities for more sophisticated mapping and analysis by combining automated mapping with linkages that allow complex queries, overlays and spatial modeling. The document argues future systems should address more complex geographic problems and better communicate results using various methods.
This document discusses Public Participation Geographic Information Systems (PPGIS) and its applicability in Hong Kong. PPGIS aims to empower marginalized groups by incorporating local knowledge into spatial planning through public engagement with GIS technology. The key elements of PPGIS include participation, usability, visualization, and interactivity. While PPGIS has been used in land use planning in Hong Kong, there is still room for improved interactivity and participation compared to traditional top-down planning approaches.
The document discusses how Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology has become integral to transportation planning and is now increasingly being used in business intelligence. It outlines how GIS has supported transportation planning for many years by helping integrate spatial data to analyze movement and plan infrastructure. Governments were early adopters of GIS due to the large amounts of spatial data they collect. The document then explains how business drives transportation of people and goods, and businesses are now recognizing the benefits of GIS for location analytics to better understand patterns and customer behavior. As spatial data and location-aware applications increase, GIS is emerging as a key tool for business decision making.
This document discusses how geospatial insight, or the analysis of location-based data, can be used to transform the public sector. It begins by providing background on the history of maps and geospatial data collection. Next, it outlines key drivers for increased adoption of geospatial analytics, including advances in hardware, software, data collection, and public familiarity with maps. The document then discusses how geospatial insight can be used to increase efficiency and cost savings, improve service quality and effectiveness, engage the public, and enable collaboration. Examples are provided of local governments optimizing bus routes to save money or better matching housing to residents' needs. Overall, the document argues geospatial analytics is an underutilized tool that can help public organizations
Towards a socio-economical evaluation framework of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Anisur Rahman Gazi (1), Research Director: Dr. Stéphane Roche (2) 1 PhD Student, Geomatic Science, Université Laval, anisur-rahman.gazi.1@ulaval.ca 2 Professor, Geomatic Science, Université Laval, stephane.roche@scg.ulaval.ca Abstract Neogeography with World Wide Web and satellite technology has become an important subject matter of modern digital age. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), using the web 2.0 platform with wikilike initiatives has enriched and is developing the idea of Neogeography in the digital world. VGI is the user-generated-content with geospatial reference in the field of Geomatics since VGI harnesses the tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals. Wikimapia, OpenstreetMap, Google Mymaps and Cloudmade are some examples of this phenomenon. These sites provide general base map information and allow users to create their own content by marking locations where various events occurred or certain features exist, but aren’t already shown on the base map. The importance of VGI is growing as since the numbers of contributors are increasing day by day. The field of VGI has already drawn attention to the contributors of participatory Geoweb as well as to the researchers in the field of Geomatics. The emerging Participatory Geoweb (web 2.0) and VGI aim to create a highly dynamic environment building a digital Neighbourhood along with the participating people of the whole world. It has a big hope to bring a positive change in the social life and economic sector amongst the neighbours of that digital neighbourhood. It is introducing a new business model, new economics and a new way of thinking about the future of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Project: SII- 86 (ECOGEO II) - GEOIDE
Geography can serve as a collaborative workspace where statistical data, analysts, and users come together. Geocoding microdata and overlaying statistical layers on a geographic base allows for new synergistic insights. This enables analysis of relationships between unrelated data by using location as a linking factor. It also helps illuminate connections between different phenomena in the same area. Examples show how geocoding survey data can bypass administrative boundaries to define custom regions of analysis and integrate independent sources.
WUN Global GIS Seminar - What\'s so new in Neogeography?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from a presentation in the WUN Global GIS Academy seminar series - http://www.wun.ac.uk/ggisa/seminars.html . For lecture notes and explanation, see povesham.wordpress.com
This document provides information about redistricting and a public mapping software project. It outlines features of the mapping software that allow users to create redistricting plans, evaluate plans, and share plans. It describes completed redistricting competitions in several states and aims to increase public participation in redistricting. The project is supported by foundations and companies and has an advisory board of experts. The goal is to create alternatives to politics as usual through public engagement with redistricting.
The document summarizes key information about mapping in the Philippines using OpenStreetMap (OSM). As of 2010, the OSM data for the Philippines contained over 197,000 roads and 2 million points of interest mapped by over 1,000 contributors. Crowdsourced mapping is popular in the Philippines and is used to map neighborhoods, towns, and entire islands. Outreach efforts are conducted to promote OSM mapping including organizing mapping parties and skillshares.
The main goal of this book chapter is to present a framework for analysis of online participation platforms. Recently, the whole range of various participation platforms emerged and there is a need for a model, which would enable to analyze their specific characteristics. The framework presented in this chapter, the participatory cube, is based on models proposed by Fung (2006) and Ferber et al. (2007). It consists of three axes which include interactive communication, access to space of participation, and decision power. These three categories play a major role in the analysis of the implemented study cases. The study cases were taken from two countries; Germany and Brazil. We concentrated on the selection of a variety of different examples of technologies that support to give voice to citizens either as an actor or as principal interlocutor of civil society organizations, aiming to offer, inform or try new ways and solutions to problems and issues raised by contemporary urban life. The participatory cube served as the model for the comparison of the selected cases. We conclude the article with a discussion about the framewok and further research directions.
Cowboys in the late 19th century led difficult lives, facing dangers on cattle drives and living off simple food. They wore durable clothing suited to ranch work and the weather. When not on cattle drives, cowboys found entertainment in activities like gambling and drinking, but the work was difficult and the pay low, making it difficult to support a family.
MCN cursus: online je muziek verkopen 2012 05 08Mars Mertens
Presentatie gemaakt voor de Muziek Centrum Nederland cursus: Online je muziek verkopen.
Met daarin overzicht van de basics mbt digitale distributie, welke manieren er zijn om je muziek bij de muziekdiensten te krijgen, korte uitleg over de "rechten" kant van de online business.
TalentBazaar is an online recruitment platform that helps employers work with thousands of evaluated recruitment consultants under a single agreement and centralized billing system. It provides fast sourcing of candidates through multiple recruiters while automating processes like duplicate checks and tracking. Employers can post jobs, select consultants, and manage candidates through the platform. TalentBazaar invoices employers and pays consultants a placement fee if a candidate is hired within the warranty period.
This report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression explores key issues relating to the right to seek, receive and impart information through the Internet. It discusses how international human rights law applies to Internet access and content restrictions. It addresses how states are censoring online information through arbitrary blocking, criminalization of speech, intermediary liability laws, disconnection from the Internet, cyberattacks and lack of privacy protections. It also examines issues of universal access to the necessary Internet infrastructure. The report contains the Special Rapporteur's conclusions and recommendations on these topics, with an emphasis on ensuring the greatest access to online content and the Internet itself. It includes summaries of the Special
This document discusses issues around collective licensing of music in Europe in light of new digital music services and regulations. It notes the complexity of licensing arrangements between countries and societies due to differences in how mechanical and performance rights are handled. It argues that a new pan-European structure is needed to facilitate direct cross-border licensing, including standardized metadata and global repertoire databases. However, it remains unclear if current proposals will truly solve problems or remain controlled by existing players. Overall reform and new regulations from the EU may be required to establish a transparent, efficient system.
Web We Want: 1 Year of Action for the Open WebRenata Avila
The document summarizes the Web We Want initiative which was launched one year prior to highlight the importance of human rights on the web. It received endorsements from over 100 organizations and 62 countries. For its first year, the initiative engaged hundreds of thousands of citizens through events and festivals promoting discussion on the future of the internet and how to ensure it respects human rights for all. It had a large social media presence and outreach through partnerships with various organizations. The initiative also focused on including more regional and women's voices on the topic of internet governance and the future of the web.
GEOCONTEXT AND CHCONTEXT GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN CULTURAL HERITAGEMarco Montanari
Internet presence and applications are central for modern museums and cultural institutions. Even more it is important to facilitate and standardize the user experience in order to create a standard quality level and, for the institutions, it is important to simplify configuration operations bound to the creation of the visualized elements and the explorations of the spaces. This demo covers both the technologies underneath the GeoContext tool and the CHContext visualization generator as well as the possible targets and applications.
This document presents a Memorandum of Understanding for a COST Action called CYBERPARKS. The objective of CYBERPARKS is to strengthen dialogue between research on public spaces and ICT development. It will explore the relationship between ICT technologies and public spaces from social, ecological, and urban design perspectives. The Action aims to cross-pollinate these fields to generate improvement activities and spark new ideas. It will create a research platform and network to share knowledge on how ICT impacts the production and use of public open spaces as they relate to sustainable urban development. The economic impact of the Action's activities is estimated at EUR 52 million. The Memorandum will take effect when accepted by at least five parties and remain in
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as...Beniamino Murgante
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as One Step Along the Way
Manfred Schrenk, Julia Neuschmid, Daniela Patti - Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as...Beniamino Murgante
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as One Step Along the Way
Manfred Schrenk, Julia Neuschmid, Daniela Patti - Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria
The document summarizes the role of geospatial information in a hyper-connected society. It discusses how the digital earth and geo big data/internet of things are generating massive amounts of geospatial data. It also describes how web geo services, participatory mapping, and geo crowdsourcing are making this data accessible and enabling new forms of interaction between people, places, and things on the internet.
The document summarizes the role of geospatial information in a hyper-connected society. It discusses how the digital earth utilizes geospatial data and services to create three-dimensional, multi-resolution models of the planet. It also explores how geo big data from satellites, sensors, social media, and the internet of things is creating massive datasets. Web geospatial services allow users to access, analyze and visualize this geospatial data through applications and participatory platforms.
From Digital Earth to the Internet of Places for Management of Risks and Emer...Maria Antonia Brovelli
The document discusses the transition from Digital Earth to the Internet of Places and how geospatial data and technologies can be used for risk and emergency management. It provides examples of participatory mapping projects conducted by the GEO Laboratory, including reporting potholes, architectural barriers, and cultural points of interest. The laboratory is developing open source platforms like PoliCrowd to enable collaborative geospatial data collection and visualization.
This document discusses how geospatial insight, or the analysis of location-based data, can be used to transform the public sector. It begins by providing background on the history of maps and geospatial data collection. Next, it outlines key drivers for increased adoption of geospatial analytics, including advances in hardware, software, data collection, and public familiarity with maps. The document then discusses how geospatial insight can be used to increase efficiency and cost savings, improve service quality and effectiveness, engage the public, and enable collaboration. Examples are provided of local governments optimizing bus routes to save money or better matching housing to residents' needs. Overall, the document argues geospatial analytics is an underutilized tool that can help public organizations
Towards a socio-economical evaluation framework of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Anisur Rahman Gazi (1), Research Director: Dr. Stéphane Roche (2) 1 PhD Student, Geomatic Science, Université Laval, anisur-rahman.gazi.1@ulaval.ca 2 Professor, Geomatic Science, Université Laval, stephane.roche@scg.ulaval.ca Abstract Neogeography with World Wide Web and satellite technology has become an important subject matter of modern digital age. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), using the web 2.0 platform with wikilike initiatives has enriched and is developing the idea of Neogeography in the digital world. VGI is the user-generated-content with geospatial reference in the field of Geomatics since VGI harnesses the tools to create, assemble, and disseminate geographic data provided voluntarily by individuals. Wikimapia, OpenstreetMap, Google Mymaps and Cloudmade are some examples of this phenomenon. These sites provide general base map information and allow users to create their own content by marking locations where various events occurred or certain features exist, but aren’t already shown on the base map. The importance of VGI is growing as since the numbers of contributors are increasing day by day. The field of VGI has already drawn attention to the contributors of participatory Geoweb as well as to the researchers in the field of Geomatics. The emerging Participatory Geoweb (web 2.0) and VGI aim to create a highly dynamic environment building a digital Neighbourhood along with the participating people of the whole world. It has a big hope to bring a positive change in the social life and economic sector amongst the neighbours of that digital neighbourhood. It is introducing a new business model, new economics and a new way of thinking about the future of Geographic Information Science (GIScience). Project: SII- 86 (ECOGEO II) - GEOIDE
Geography can serve as a collaborative workspace where statistical data, analysts, and users come together. Geocoding microdata and overlaying statistical layers on a geographic base allows for new synergistic insights. This enables analysis of relationships between unrelated data by using location as a linking factor. It also helps illuminate connections between different phenomena in the same area. Examples show how geocoding survey data can bypass administrative boundaries to define custom regions of analysis and integrate independent sources.
WUN Global GIS Seminar - What\'s so new in Neogeography?Muki Haklay
These are the slides from a presentation in the WUN Global GIS Academy seminar series - http://www.wun.ac.uk/ggisa/seminars.html . For lecture notes and explanation, see povesham.wordpress.com
This document provides information about redistricting and a public mapping software project. It outlines features of the mapping software that allow users to create redistricting plans, evaluate plans, and share plans. It describes completed redistricting competitions in several states and aims to increase public participation in redistricting. The project is supported by foundations and companies and has an advisory board of experts. The goal is to create alternatives to politics as usual through public engagement with redistricting.
The document summarizes key information about mapping in the Philippines using OpenStreetMap (OSM). As of 2010, the OSM data for the Philippines contained over 197,000 roads and 2 million points of interest mapped by over 1,000 contributors. Crowdsourced mapping is popular in the Philippines and is used to map neighborhoods, towns, and entire islands. Outreach efforts are conducted to promote OSM mapping including organizing mapping parties and skillshares.
The main goal of this book chapter is to present a framework for analysis of online participation platforms. Recently, the whole range of various participation platforms emerged and there is a need for a model, which would enable to analyze their specific characteristics. The framework presented in this chapter, the participatory cube, is based on models proposed by Fung (2006) and Ferber et al. (2007). It consists of three axes which include interactive communication, access to space of participation, and decision power. These three categories play a major role in the analysis of the implemented study cases. The study cases were taken from two countries; Germany and Brazil. We concentrated on the selection of a variety of different examples of technologies that support to give voice to citizens either as an actor or as principal interlocutor of civil society organizations, aiming to offer, inform or try new ways and solutions to problems and issues raised by contemporary urban life. The participatory cube served as the model for the comparison of the selected cases. We conclude the article with a discussion about the framewok and further research directions.
Cowboys in the late 19th century led difficult lives, facing dangers on cattle drives and living off simple food. They wore durable clothing suited to ranch work and the weather. When not on cattle drives, cowboys found entertainment in activities like gambling and drinking, but the work was difficult and the pay low, making it difficult to support a family.
MCN cursus: online je muziek verkopen 2012 05 08Mars Mertens
Presentatie gemaakt voor de Muziek Centrum Nederland cursus: Online je muziek verkopen.
Met daarin overzicht van de basics mbt digitale distributie, welke manieren er zijn om je muziek bij de muziekdiensten te krijgen, korte uitleg over de "rechten" kant van de online business.
TalentBazaar is an online recruitment platform that helps employers work with thousands of evaluated recruitment consultants under a single agreement and centralized billing system. It provides fast sourcing of candidates through multiple recruiters while automating processes like duplicate checks and tracking. Employers can post jobs, select consultants, and manage candidates through the platform. TalentBazaar invoices employers and pays consultants a placement fee if a candidate is hired within the warranty period.
This report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression explores key issues relating to the right to seek, receive and impart information through the Internet. It discusses how international human rights law applies to Internet access and content restrictions. It addresses how states are censoring online information through arbitrary blocking, criminalization of speech, intermediary liability laws, disconnection from the Internet, cyberattacks and lack of privacy protections. It also examines issues of universal access to the necessary Internet infrastructure. The report contains the Special Rapporteur's conclusions and recommendations on these topics, with an emphasis on ensuring the greatest access to online content and the Internet itself. It includes summaries of the Special
This document discusses issues around collective licensing of music in Europe in light of new digital music services and regulations. It notes the complexity of licensing arrangements between countries and societies due to differences in how mechanical and performance rights are handled. It argues that a new pan-European structure is needed to facilitate direct cross-border licensing, including standardized metadata and global repertoire databases. However, it remains unclear if current proposals will truly solve problems or remain controlled by existing players. Overall reform and new regulations from the EU may be required to establish a transparent, efficient system.
Web We Want: 1 Year of Action for the Open WebRenata Avila
The document summarizes the Web We Want initiative which was launched one year prior to highlight the importance of human rights on the web. It received endorsements from over 100 organizations and 62 countries. For its first year, the initiative engaged hundreds of thousands of citizens through events and festivals promoting discussion on the future of the internet and how to ensure it respects human rights for all. It had a large social media presence and outreach through partnerships with various organizations. The initiative also focused on including more regional and women's voices on the topic of internet governance and the future of the web.
GEOCONTEXT AND CHCONTEXT GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN CULTURAL HERITAGEMarco Montanari
Internet presence and applications are central for modern museums and cultural institutions. Even more it is important to facilitate and standardize the user experience in order to create a standard quality level and, for the institutions, it is important to simplify configuration operations bound to the creation of the visualized elements and the explorations of the spaces. This demo covers both the technologies underneath the GeoContext tool and the CHContext visualization generator as well as the possible targets and applications.
This document presents a Memorandum of Understanding for a COST Action called CYBERPARKS. The objective of CYBERPARKS is to strengthen dialogue between research on public spaces and ICT development. It will explore the relationship between ICT technologies and public spaces from social, ecological, and urban design perspectives. The Action aims to cross-pollinate these fields to generate improvement activities and spark new ideas. It will create a research platform and network to share knowledge on how ICT impacts the production and use of public open spaces as they relate to sustainable urban development. The economic impact of the Action's activities is estimated at EUR 52 million. The Memorandum will take effect when accepted by at least five parties and remain in
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as...Beniamino Murgante
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as One Step Along the Way
Manfred Schrenk, Julia Neuschmid, Daniela Patti - Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as...Beniamino Murgante
Towards 'Resilient Cities' - Harmonisation of Spatial Planning Information as One Step Along the Way
Manfred Schrenk, Julia Neuschmid, Daniela Patti - Department for Urbanism, Transport, Environment and Information Society, Central European Institute of Technology, Austria
The document summarizes the role of geospatial information in a hyper-connected society. It discusses how the digital earth and geo big data/internet of things are generating massive amounts of geospatial data. It also describes how web geo services, participatory mapping, and geo crowdsourcing are making this data accessible and enabling new forms of interaction between people, places, and things on the internet.
The document summarizes the role of geospatial information in a hyper-connected society. It discusses how the digital earth utilizes geospatial data and services to create three-dimensional, multi-resolution models of the planet. It also explores how geo big data from satellites, sensors, social media, and the internet of things is creating massive datasets. Web geospatial services allow users to access, analyze and visualize this geospatial data through applications and participatory platforms.
From Digital Earth to the Internet of Places for Management of Risks and Emer...Maria Antonia Brovelli
The document discusses the transition from Digital Earth to the Internet of Places and how geospatial data and technologies can be used for risk and emergency management. It provides examples of participatory mapping projects conducted by the GEO Laboratory, including reporting potholes, architectural barriers, and cultural points of interest. The laboratory is developing open source platforms like PoliCrowd to enable collaborative geospatial data collection and visualization.
This document discusses the use of geographic information systems (GIS) in civil engineering. It provides an overview of GIS, including its history and components. It then discusses several applications of GIS in civil engineering, such as for transportation engineering, watershed analysis, remote sensing, waste management, regional planning, and landslide analysis. GIS allows civil engineers to integrate spatial and non-spatial data from various sources to facilitate complex analysis and decision-making regarding infrastructure development and management.
This document discusses the establishment of a European network called SUB-URBAN to improve understanding and use of underground spaces in cities. The network aims to coordinate research on 3D/4D modeling of city subsurfaces across European institutions. This will help integrate subsurface knowledge and maximize its economic, social and environmental benefits for sustainable urban development. The network will develop tools to disseminate subsurface models and train decision-makers on their use.
Muki Haklay (UCL) Mapping For Sustainable Communities 170608Muki Haklay
- The document discusses a seminar that aims to foster collaboration between academics, practitioners, and communities on participatory mapping and GIS research in the UK.
- It will involve sharing learning from previous mapping projects, discussing concepts of participatory mapping, and showcasing community projects.
- One session will discuss the philosophy of technology as it relates to participatory GIS, and how GIS could be "rewired" to better incorporate local knowledge and public participation.
This document discusses the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to support collaborative urban planning. It outlines both opportunities and risks of using technologies like web mapping, social media, and volunteered geographic information (VGI) to facilitate public participation in the planning process. While ICTs can increase transparency, engagement, and data collection, they may also overload planning with unverified information and biased views if not implemented carefully. The key is for planners to harness technologies to capture diverse public perspectives but also maintain oversight of the planning process.
E-democracy in collaborative planning: a critical review Beniamino Murgante
E-democracy in collaborative planning: a critical review
Francesco Rotondo, Francesco Selicato - Department of Architecture and Town Planning of Polytechnic of Bari
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SPATIAL AWARENESS HISTORY PROJECT
Using the discipline, ‘Emergency Preparedness’. Explain using the guidelines below the history.
1. Clearly explain importance of the chosen discipline to self
2. Comprehensively explain how cartographic representations in the chosen discipline have changed over time and supports explanation with research
3. Accurately analyze the impact of the geospatial revolution on the chosen discipline and supports analysis with research
4. Clearly explain how the human understanding of space in the chosen discipline has changed throughout history and supports explanation with research
5. Comprehensively discuss how spatial reasoning has impacted the chosen discipline and supports discussion with research
6. Accurately identify patterns in spatial awareness or spatial reasoning in the chosen discipline and supports identification with research
7. Clearly illustrate future applications of spatial awareness for the chosen discipline and supports applications with research
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1. 3D WEBGIS AND VISUALIZATION ISSUES FOR ARCHITECTURES AND LARGE
SITES
R. De Amicis., G. Conti, G. Girardi., M. Andreolli
Fondazione Graphitech, 38123 Trento, Italy –
(raffaele.de.amicis, giuseppe.conti, gabrio.girardi, michele.andreolli)@graphitech.it
Commission V, WG V/4
KEY WORDS: Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Spinning Globes, Cultural Heritage, Geodatabase, Interactive media
access
ABSTRACT:
Traditionally, within the field of archaeology and, more generally, within the cultural heritage domain, Geographical Information
Systems (GIS) have been mostly used as support to cataloguing activities, essentially operating as gateways to large geo-referenced
archives of specialised cultural heritage information. Additionally GIS have proved to be essential to help cultural heritage
institutions improve management of their historical information, providing the means for detection of otherwise hard-to-discover
spatial patterns, supporting with computation tools necessary to perform spatial clustering, proximity and orientation analysis.
This paper presents a platform developed to answer to both the aforementioned issues, by allowing geo-referenced cataloguing of
multi-media resources of cultural relevance as well as access, in a user-friendly manner, through an interactive 3D geobrowser which
operates as single point of access to the available digital repositories. The solution has been showcased in the context of “Festival
dell’Economia” (the Fair of Economics) a major event recently occurred in Trento, Italy and it has allowed visitors of the event to
interactively access an extremely large repository of information, as well as their metadata, available across the area of the
Autonomous Province of Trento, in Italy.
Within the event, an extremely large repository was made accessible, via the network, through web-services, from a 3D interactive
geobrowser developed by the authors. The 3D scene was enriched with a number of Points of Interest (POIs) linking to information
available within various databases. The software package was deployed with a complex hardware set-up composed of a large
composite panoramic screen covering a horizontal field of view of 240 degrees.
1. INTRODUCTION This paper describes the result of a work, commissioned by a
private contractor, which has provided the author with the
The fruition of Geographic Information (GI) from the Internet, chance to deploy an IT system that could emphasise this vision.
in a direct and interactive way, has enjoyed, in the last few The main challenge set by the contractor was to develop an
years, a significant growth. The unprecedented success of interactive solution that could be used to represents the various
mapping applications such as Microsoft Bing Maps or Google aspects of a territory, be these historical, economic,
Maps, is inevitably and radically changing the way people environmental, and to convey them in an innovative, trendy and
conceive the Internet and its content. These applications are in appealing way, that could be attractive for the largest possible
fact contributing to a radical paradigm shift in the way people audience, with the most diverse cultural background.
access the Internet, now increasingly based on geographical
locations rather than on their Internet address, promoting a Content-wise the solution had to emphasise the role of three
cultural change that could have unpredictable effects as already main factors: technological innovation, cultural identity and the
occurred in the case of other Web 2.0 disruptive technologies government of a territory.
such Facebook, which has recently overtaken emails in terms of
messages being exchanged. The final system had to be deployed within a major event,
namely the “Festival dell’Economia” (the Fair of Economics),
In the case of Geographic Information the possibility to play which takes place every year in Trento, Italy. The system had to
with an interactive mapping software in fact is changing the be used by the large audience to promote exploration,
user’s behaviour as they use platforms, such as Google Earth, communication and exchange of experience among the visiting
not only to find the shortest route to reach a given place but also public promoting the territory of the surrounding Province of
to identify touristic information within a particular area, or Trento, acting as a gateway to the adjoining areas and as a
simply for didactical or personal cultural growth, for instance to showcase to the cultural and economic heritage within the
explore areas of interest. In short these platforms allow the user Province.
to freely explore the territory.
For this reason it was essential for the system to be user friendly
2. INITIAL REQUIREMENTS OF THE PROJECT to help visitor enjoy their visit, motivating them to further
explore the surrounding areas after the visit to the site.
In fact the territory represents, almost directly, an instance of Furthermore the solution had to be robust, allowing visit of up
the cultural identity of a population, through its historical to several thousand people over few days, and had to ensure a
evolution, from an environmental, economic, societal or urban confortable experience also in the presence of groups of up to
planning point of view. 20 people.
2. When designing the solution the authors could benefit from To compensate for such a relatively low-resolution data, the
experience gained in the context of several research activities terrain was then textured, at very high scale (i.e. when flying out
and projects (Bertacchini et al. 2007; Conti et al., 2011; Conti et beyond the regional scale) with imagery from Landsat7
al., 2009; De Amicis et al. 2008). satellites (Landsat7, 2001), while at lower scales using imagery
acquired by the Province through airborne surveying, delivering
The first part of the work required gathering the digital assets ground resolution of 50 cm, covering an area of more than
that could be used to best represent the territory, its history and 6,000 square kilometres.
its heritage, namely the Digital Terrain Model (DTM) of the
Province of Trento, a complete orthophoto coverage of the This ensures an excellent graphical impact since the entire scene
Province, a very wide collection of historical photographs, maps become extremely rich in visual details. Additionally this
extracted from the historical cadastre, additional information represented the basis for the scene which could be interactively
regarding the most prominent and culturally relevant locations navigated with the use of a 3D geobrowser developed by the
in the area, but also locations of environmentally sustainable authors (Conti et al, 2009a; Simoes et al., 2009; Simoes et al.
businesses and, last but not least, a number of panoramic 2010). The user could then decide to see additional digital
pictures of the area. resources rendered over the terrain.
3. THE PROJECT CHALLENGE AND THE SOLUTION 4.2 Historical maps
DELIVERED
This datasets included not only information related to current
The challenge the authors had to face was to devise how to territory but also reference to historical asset. The most notable
represent all these apparently heterogeneous digital information example is show in Figure 1, which illustrates the historical
in an interactive manner yet delivering and harmonious maps of forty city councils across the Trentino Province, which
experience that could represent the territory in an engaging and could be rendered on top of the terrain in 3D over an area of
user friendly way. more than 3,200 square kilometres.
The solution identified made use of a software infrastructure
based on a 3D geobrowser developed by the authors (see section
5 - software infrastructure) and an advanced panoramic display
system set-up to cover –at high resolution- an horizontal field of
240 degree (see section 6 - hardware set-up).
All the data repositories ware not stored any more in a standard
way, within databases or file systems, but they were geo-
referenced. Participants could enter the site and interrogate the
system: any of the visitor user fly around the scene in an
interactive manner and accessing the multimedia content. One
may argue that the system could be accessed by one user at time
only, but in fact the set-up allowed true group-wise experience
whereby a small community of users access the territory,
discover information of interest, read documents of relevance
and exchange positions and points of view, comment in a
collaborative manner.
The large volume covered by the visualisation set-up ensured
that the experience become participatory in the very similar
manner to a traditional visit to a given site with a group of
persons. However this approach has allowed moving beyond the
issue of ensuring collaborative access to digital assets through
different set-ups sharing the same virtual environment accessed
through a number of remote sessions.
4. ASSET AVAILABLE AND ITS PROCESSING
4.1 The 3D model of the terrain Figure 1: the system in use while showing the historical maps
The 3D scene of the region was built with the use of a Digital It must be noted that this required an extensive preparation work
Terrain Model (DTM) based on the Shuttle Radar Topography as the historical cadastral maps, dating back to the end of
Mission (SRTM) dataset made publicly available by NASA. nineteen century, had been initially made available as paper
based maps. The various map sheets were classified according
Although the dataset provides only 90 meter ground resolution to geographical grid of approximately 2 by 2 kilometres. The
this was regarded as more than adequate given the scope of the initial set of paper documents, which had been previously
application. In fact the adoption of a higher resolution DEM, scanned by the local cultural heritage department, was made
such as the one available by Provincia di Trento which has an available to the authors as high resolution set of approximately
average ground resolution of 2 meters, would have added a 2,000 digital images.
significantly higher strain in terms of required graphical
computing power due to the very high resolution of the screen However their use within the geo-referenced 3D globe, used for
used (see section 6 - hardware set-up). this project, required the application of an affine transformation
3. to yield ortho-rectified images to be rendered within the 3D
scene.
Once ortho-rectified the various independent sets of map sheets
had to be grouped and stitched together in order to achieve a
single, seamless coverage of a given city council. This process
had to be repeated for each set of map sheet which fell within
the same administrative borders.
This yielded a set of different maps, one for each administrative
area, which had to be merged into a single seamless data
structure.
However to do so a further step was required to remove, from
each set of map sheets corresponding to an administrative
border, the empty areas around the borders and to make this
areas transparent to allow proper fitting with other adjoining
maps.
Once all images had been blended into a single coverage set this
was pre-processed and structured into squared images sets
whose side measured 0.04 degree. Each image constituted the
top of a pyramid of images of 512x512 pixels at five different
levels of detail, created by subdividing the parent image into a
set of 4x4 images. The final result was a set of fifty thousand
images structured within file system according to their level of
resolution and position.
Figure 2: a screenshot showing the location of cultural
4.3 Other information on locations of relevance
relevance
Such a wide data repository was complemented by information
available within a database of the Culture Department of the
local Province of Trento. This contained information on points
of interest of cultural relevance including, but not limited to,
museums, places of worship (e.g. churches, monasteries,
cemeteries etc.), location of areas of historical military
relevance including old fortresses, trenches, and areas subject to
bombing during the Second World War.
A further dataset contained information collected by a local
trust focusing on initiatives to improve sustainability and reduce
carbon footprint. The database contained, among other,
information on local farms capable to promote local produce
(therefore reducing emission of carbon dioxide), industries
deploying green policies, renewable energy sources etc. Figure 3: a screenshot showing the various cultural resources
These repositories were finally complemented by a large set of available in the area
360 high-resolution panoramas distributed over the territory of
the Province shot at location of high touristic impact such as
mountain peaks etc. 5. SOFTWARE INFRASTRUCTURE
This extremely large repository was made accessible, via the The software developed for the purpose of the fair, as presented
network through web-services, from a 3D interactive in this paper, was based on top of the platform, developed by
geobrowser developed by the authors. The technical details of the authors (Conti et al, 2009a; Simoes et al., 2009; Simoes et
the software infrastructure are detailed in the following section. al. 2010), for interactive web-based fruition and management of
The information available through the aforementioned geographical information.
repositories were integrated and made available, within the 3D
scene, as a number of Points of Interest (POIs) linking to The framework is composed, on the one hand, of a complex
information available within the different databases. federation of server-side component and, on the other, it
features a web-based 3D client.
Whenever the user wanted to retrieve additional information on
a given point of interest, they could click on each of these POIs. The client is fully developed as pure Java™ application
As result a panel would be automatically formatted with all the ensuring portability to all the most popular Operating Systems
multimedia content available, which could include textual (OS) including Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms. The
description and images, videos to name but a few, all client can be deployed as standalone software or, more
automatically formatted from the information available within conveniently, as applet or Java Web Start™ application.
the database.
4. 5.1 Resource management resolution as previously discussed when detailing the
production of historical maps.
The 3D scene represents the base on top of which all the other
detests are rendered. The system, during handshake, downloads This repository, which is static in nature, allows fast delivery on
the list of resources to be made available to the user. As soon as information at the server side without use of a database through
the client is started the client connects to the servers and an efficient mechanism of storing, compression and indexing of
downloads the configuration corresponding to the given profile. the various patches of images at different resolution. The clients
This includes both the tools available within the interface and sends to the server a standardised request (e.g. as WMS request)
the datasets that the client will be granted access to. After for a given portion of terrain. The servlet receives the request
successful authentication tools and resources are grouped within and fetches the corresponding repository directly at the file
two panels, rendered on top of the main window, sliding on the system level, encoding the response as WMS messages via
side of the screen once not needed. HTTP. As a result the server does not need to invoke the full
service stack involving use of Geoserver, other libraries as well
During handshake the client requests from thee server the list of as the database. This very simple, yet streamlined approach
resources assigned to a given profile. A servlet responds with an ensures extremely high performances when dealing with static
XML which details both the information to be shown to the information, often with an order of magnitude improvement in
user, which will be used as label of a table of content. The latter terms of response time.
is shown at the right most side of the screen within a sliding
panel and can be used to conveniently access the various This approach is extremely beneficial as it allows accessing,
resources. This information is used by the client to create a set within a context such as a solution developed for cultural
of layers, these are logical sets of resourced packed together, applications, to information made available by public
that can be visualised in various ways. These can be layers administrations for operational activities (e.g. for planning or
containing maps, images, but also multimedia data etc. other technical and administrative reasons) in an interoperable
manner. This way digital resources such as orthophoto imagery,
Layers can also be used to create logically stacked sets of cadastral maps, geographical data on planning, to name but a
graphical information over the terrain. In other words their order few, can be accessed in a completely interoperable manner, thus
is used by the system to determine the visibility of one dataset maximising the scope of the resources available.
with respect to the others, as if they were different layers of
graphical resources draped over the terrain in a given order. The federated approach moves a step further in that if some
adaptation is required, for instance to perform re-projection of
The XML detailing the configuration additionally specifies the existing resources to the reference system in use by the client, or
internet location where each resource is located. In fact the to perform a transformation of data model, this can be
entire infrastructure is based upon the paradigm of the so-called performed on the fly by a dedicated web service.
Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) a set of federated web services
providing access to georeferenced information via standard Structured information is typically stored within a database with
communication protocols. spatial extension (geodatabase). This way additional multimedia
or alphanumeric resources can also be accessed directly from
When the user selects a resource from the Table of Content the the client. This is the case of repositories containing cultural
client redirects the request to the web-service providing access information as detailed in the previous sections.
to the relevant dataset.
6. HARDWARE SET-UP
The various web services are deployed within a Java Enterprise
Edition framework. Whenever possible the business intelligence Due to the large number of expected visitors, the visualisation
required at the server level is ensure through an EJB (Enterprise setup had to ensure concurrent vision by group of up to 20
Java Bean) coupled to a Servlet which is responsible for the people. For this reason, after a comprehensive study of various
communication with the client. Most notably the solutions, the authors opted for a very effective visualisation
communication –whenever possible- is performed with the use solution based on a curved screen covering 240° field of view.
of standards from Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC, 2011).
In particular this ensures that imagery (e.g. maps) or vector A self-standing structure was used to create a cylindrical
information (e.g. roads) can be transmitted in a standardised projection surface where four Epson EB-G5200 projectors
manner through protocols such as Web Map Service (WMS) or delivered a composite image of 4096x768 pixels at 5000 lm
Web Feature Service (WFS). across the 240° curved screen with a radius of 2.2 meters. The
projectors were mounted on the upper structure of the projection
From the server side this is delivered through a set of software screen ensuring a large shadow-free area within the cylindrical
components developed on top of Geoserver (Geoserver, 2011) space.
and GeoTools (GeoTools, 2011), a lower level toolkit which
can be used to implement geographical applications. The large panoramic screen was powered by a PC workstation,
configured with two nVidia GTX480 video cards, with a total of
These server components in turn rely on one or more data 3 GB dedicated video memory. The PC was used to run both the
repositories which can be available locally or yet within other client and the server components including JBoss, Apache etc.
server within the federation. Local data, typically available
through file systems, include satellite or airborne imagery. The two video outputs from the nVidia video cards were
These resources are not stored within a database but within a connected to a Viosio Black Box used to create a single virtual
structured file system. A set of structured folders allows storing high-resolution screen which is then split into four regions, each
imagery according to a standardised subdivision in “tiles”, i.e. corresponding to one of the sectors of the screen. The Black
patches of terrain at increasingly smaller scale and higher Box was configured to ensure proper edge blending and
5. correction of the distortion across the four projectors in order to The solution had to be respond to a number of strict constraints
deliver a single seamless image. including the possibility to be experienced by several users at
time, being robust, provide access to heterogeneous
information, be engaging, and capable to attract the largest
possible audience. The solution has been detailed from the
software and hardware standpoint.
Currently the authors are also extending the solution presented
in this paper with a multi-touch system capable to manage 32
simultaneous points of contact. This solution is being used to
create a collaborative environment where several users at the
same time not only visualise information over a screen but also
interact with its content in a very user friendly way composing
information of relevance over a large screen. This will bring to
new scenarios of explorative collaboration.
Figure 4: a picture of the tessellated display deployed
7. THE SYSTEM IN USE
The entire set-up was deployed for an entire week within a large
tent, open to visitors, within one of the main square of the city.
As result the set-up was experienced by thousands of people
during the week-long fair of economics.
Although no formal assessment could be made, given the
context of the set-up, the public showed great interest for the
solution that was often regarded as very informative and
pleasant. Several users reported explicitly that the set-up had Figure 6: the multi-touch panel being used as further extension
fuelled their interest towards the surrounding area, and had of the system.
acted as excellent promotional platform. Most interestingly
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