The GeoCitizen-approach: community-based spatial planning – an Ecuadorian case study

Over the last years, geospatial web platforms, social media, and volunteered geographic information (VGI) have opened a window of opportunity for traditional Public Participatory GIS (PPGIS) to usher in a new era. Taking advantage of these technological achievements, this paper presents a new approach for a citizen-orientated framework of spatial planning that aims at integrating participatory community work into existing decision-making structures. One major cornerstone of the presented approach is the application of a social geoweb platform (the GeoCitizen platform) that combines geo-web technologies and social media in one single tool allowing citizens to collaboratively report observations, discuss ideas, solve, and monitor problems in their living environment at a local level. This paper gives an account of an ongoing participatory land-zoning process in the Capital District of Quito, Ecuador, where the GeoCitizen platform is applied in a long-term study.     

云服务平台下的地理信息系统技术研究

云计算与云服务经过几十年的探索与发展,已逐渐进入实际应用阶段。本项目从云服务如何服务于地理信息系统的角度进行研究。本文介绍了项目的整体设计与内容,及当前云服务的发展现状,概述了Open Layers API所具有的几个优势和开源地理信息系统的建设过程。本文重点说明了在云服务平台上部署地理信息系统的工作流程和需要注意的几个问题。     

论弱势群体的法律保护

弱势群体是社会分层的结果,对其进行保护是法律追求正义与秩序的必然要求,具体途径为通过法律再分配社会性资源,缩小强弱差距,保护弱势群体的正当权益。完善我国的弱势群体法律保护制度,须遵循“一个协调,两个结合”的指导原则,即效率与公平相协调,长远措施与短期措施相结合,全面保护与重点保护相结合。     

浅析律师角色的社会定位——兼谈律师法对律师权利义务的设计

运用法制给律师一个准确定位是法治社会发展的需要，也是发挥律师作用的重要前提。我国现行律师法将律师定位于为社会提供法律服务的执业人员，对律师职业定位不准确，造成律师社会地位低下，缺乏社会责任感，容易造成律师角色失败。社会需求和价值取向决定着律师角色的社会定位，我国的律师法对律师权利义务的制度设计应成为律师定位和发挥其作用的法律保障。     

STUDY ON THE MIGRANT LABOUR FORCE OF CHINA IN RECENT YEARS──A Case Study of Nanhai City of Guangdong Province

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Feminism and Social Theory in Geography: An Introduction*

This essay introduces a collection of articles based on papers developed for a Fall 2004 speaker series at the University of Minnesota. The articles address the continued relevance of feminist geography and the unique contributions of feminist perspectives in various areas of geographic research. They also point out directions for needed future research. This introduction briefly reviews the successes of and remaining challenges to feminist geography, including material inequities yet unresolved in two other (nonresearch) “places” of academic life: teaching and the workplace. We discuss the ongoing underrepresentation of women and people of color on our faculties and in the front of classrooms.     

一种基于横向或纵向扫描线处理的填洼算法

针对传统PlanchouDarbous算法采用递归执行方式导致处理效率低下等问题,该文提出了一种适合基于CUDA的GPU并行执行的DEM洼地填充算法。此算法采用淹没-排水思路,多次推进式扫描完成排水;在串行执行和并行执行两种方式下,算法处理有所差异,其中串行算法代码更短;串行算法的时间复杂度为O(n),测试结果表明串行执行时快于PlanchonDarboux算法,且在CUDA环境下的并行执行用时不到串行执行用时的一半。算法思路简单,易于编程实现。     

多核并行环境中矢量数据格式的转换算法

针对目前对VCT格式转换的并行算法研究较少的现状,该文以VCT向shapefile格式转换为例,探索多核并行环境中进行VCT格式向其他矢量数据格式快速转换的方法:在深入探索VCT与shapefile格式特点的基础上,通过构建索引、数据解析转换,完成由VCT向shapefile格式的转换;并设计出一种顾及负载均衡的数据划分方法,通过评估不同类型图层的复杂度实现不同类型矢量数据的均衡划分,实现了VCT向shapefile格式转换的并行算法。最后利用某地土地利用VCT文件进行算法测试,结果表明该算法转换结果正确,取得了良好的加速比,并基本达到负载均衡。     

Visualizing spatiotemporal trajectories of mobile social media users using space–time cube

The implementation of social network applications on mobile platforms has significantly elevated the activity of mobile social networking. Mobile social networking offers a channel for recording an individual’s spatiotemporal behaviors when location-detecting capabilities of devices are enabled. It also facilitates the study of time geography on an individual level, which has previously suffered from a scarcity of georeferenced movement data. In this paper, we report on the use of georeferenced tweets to display and analyze the spatiotemporal patterns of daily user trajectories. For georeferenced tweets having both location information in longitude and latitude values and recorded creation time, we apply a space–time cube approach for visualization. Compared to the traditional methodologies for time geography studies such as the travel diary-based approach, the analytics using social media data present challenges broadly associated with those of Big Data, including the characteristics of high velocity, large volume, and heterogeneity. For this study, a batch processing system has been developed for extracting spatiotemporal information from each tweet and then creating trajectories of each individual mobile Twitter user. Using social media data in time geographic research has the benefits of study area flexibility, continuous observation and non-involvement with contributors. For example, during every 30-minute cycle, we collected tweets created by about 50,000 Twitter users living in a geographic region covering New York City to Washington, DC. Each tweet can indicate the exact location of its creator when the tweet was posted. Thus, the linked tweets show a Twitter users’ movement trajectory in space and time. This study explores using data intensive computing for processing Twitter data to generate spatiotemporal information that can recreate the space–time trajectories of their creators.     

沿边开放开发进程中农用地多功能性评价

农用地多功能利用是黑龙江省沿边开放带土地利用效率提升及生态经济协调发展的客观要求,农用地利用多功能性评价是其基础工作。该文系统地研究了农用地利用多功能性评价方法,测度了1996年、2004年、2013年黑龙江省农用地利用多功能状态及期间变化。研究表明,1996~2013年黑龙江省农用地利用总功能缓慢提高,多功能协调性逐步提升;农用地利用由单一功能逐渐向多功能转变。为扩大农用地利用多功能整体效应并提高农用地利用多功能协调性,稳定生产功能、加快提高经济功能、重点遏制生态功能退化、逐步提高社会功能是沿边开放带今后的农用地利用方向。