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Identifying the Geographical Scope of Prohibition Signs
Hopf, Konstantin; Dageförde, Florian; Wolter, Diedrich (2015): „Identifying the Geographical Scope of Prohibition Signs“. Cham: Springer International Publishing doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-23374-1_12.
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Spatial Information Theory : 12th International Conference, COSIT 2015 Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12–16, 2015, Proceedings
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Volume 9368 ; Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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12th International Conference, COSIT 2015 Santa Fe, NM, USA, October 12–16, 2015
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2015
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978-3-319-23374-1
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English
Abstract:
Prohibition signs warn of actions considered dangerous or annoying. Typically, these signs are located near the beginning of their scope, but knowledge about applicable prohibitions is important at any place within the scope.We developed an automated method to determine the scope of signs, aiming to support volunteered geographic information (VGI) applications that wish to capture prohibitions. In this paper we investigate the problem of computing the scope of geo-referenced signs that refer to human outdoor activities using OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. We analyze the problem and discuss the specific challenges faced. From the analysis we derive a symbolic representation that links activities with (OSM) map features, enabling semantic assessment of map features with respect to a prohibition and reasoning to infer its scope. In a comparative evaluation we demonstrate that our spatial-semantic approach significantly outperforms a previous method based on proximity.
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Spatial semantics
Semantic assessment
Prohibition signs
Volunteered geographic information (VGI)
OpenStreetMap (OSM)
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Contribution to an Articlecollection
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October 14, 2015
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