From taxonomies to ontologies: formalizing generalization knowledge for on-demand mapping

Automation of the cartographic design process is central to the delivery of bespoke maps via the web. In this paper, ontological modeling is used to explicitly represent and articulate the knowledge used in this decision-making process. A use case focuses on the visualization of road traffic accident data as a way of illustrating how ontologies provide a framework by which salient and contextual information can be integrated in a meaningful manner. Such systems are in anticipation of web-based services in which the user knows what they need, but do not have the cartographic ability to get what they want.     

基于案例推理的海洋涡旋特征信息空间相似性研究

目前对海洋涡旋的分析主要采用水团、近海海流分析和数值模拟方法,这些方法结合不同的区域资料已经有过很多成功的研究。但面对日益增长的多源、大面积海洋遥感数据,在快速自动化提取海洋涡旋的空间信息方面还存在很多难题。因此该文针对海洋涡旋空间信息的快速定量分析问题,提出了基于案例推理(Case-Based Reasoning,CBR)的海洋涡旋空间相似性研究方法。该方法首先采用多源数据(遥感数据、遥感反演数据、观测数据等)进行历史涡旋案例定量分析,并构建基于CBR的海洋涡旋案例表达模型和历史案例库;继而采用“基于重心矢径的序列分析方法”进行历史涡旋空间相似性分析,并结合典型的海洋涡旋区域给出具体实例。研究结果表明该方法是可行的。     

ArcSDE压缩二进制存储格式的研究与改进

ArcSDE压缩二进制是ArcSDE在关系型数据库(RDBMS)中保存地理信息中二进制几何图形的存储格式,这种格式采用将浮点几何数据整形化的方法进行数据压缩,减少了数据存储空间,同时也加快了数据在网络上传输的速度。本文通过对ArcSDE压缩二进制存储格式的研究与分析,指出了这种格式在存取和处理效率上的不足之处,并提出了更为高效的改进方法。     

面向自动车辆定位与导航系统的数字地图数据库系统

讨论了生成AVLN数字地图及相应数据库所必须采集的信息。重点分析了AVLN系统中几个依赖数字地图的功能。     

成都市城市地貌图的设计与编制

设计城市地貌图应注重城市地貌在建城区、边缘区和城市经济辐射区范围内的区域分异规律。编制城市地貌图应遵循：环境功能，应用性，突出重点和图面协调三个原则。据此编制了成都市１：６５００建城区，１：５万边缘区和１：２０万城市经济辐射区三种城市地貌图。     

数字化线性地图要素的综合

本文从制图线理论出发,侧重讨论了数字化线性地图要素(链)的综合方法,并编写了与之相应的计算机自动综合程序,以用于机助制图。     

Using GIS for analysis of urban systems

It is recognized that the spatial organization of urban system can be abstracted as three main components: a set of points, which describes the structural characteristics such as social and economic properties of individual city; a set of lines, which indicates the patterns of interaction among the cities; a set of spheres, which indicates how and to which extent each city affects the area around it. Even if such substance of urban system coincides with the main purpose of GIS for spatial or geometric data types such as point, line and region, little attention has been given to this point. By an evidence analysis of China, the application of potential analytical capabilities of GIS for urban system is attempted in this study. We find GIS acts as an efficient tool not only for the spatial structure analysis of urban system, which including potential distribution of cities, extraction of principal linkages among cities, and delimitation of subsystems; but also for the verification of socio-economic attributes and dynamics of urban system. This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date.     

Effectiveness of Cartogram for the Representation of Spatial Data

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Cartogram is a technique for visualisation of the geographical distribution of spatial data. It has two main types, i.e. distance cartogram and area cartogram. Area cartogram is a transformed map in which areas are resized in proportion to an attribute value. A number of techniques have been developed for the generation of area cartograms. Some researchers consider cartogram as a very effective technique for visualisation of spatial data, while others doubt about the effectiveness because of the possible distortion in shape and/or disconnectivity in topology. This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of area cartogram for visualizing spatial data. In this study, two comparative experiments have been conducted. One is the comparison between thematic maps and cartograms, and the other is the comparison among different types of area cartogram. Two sets of data with different characteristics are used, i.e. 2005 China population data and 1996 US election data. Results show that cartogram is more effective in the representation of the 1996 US election data which provides a qualitative result (i.e. in binary form or nominal data), but thematic map is far more effective in the representation of 2005 China population data which provides a quantitative result (in classes or ordinal data). It is also found that among different types of area cartogram, pseudo-cartogram is the most preferred technique and Dorling cartogram is the least preferred one.