Semantics and Generalisation - laurentlefort/semantic-geospatial GitHub Wiki

Generalisation here = operation to "summarize" spatial data (application: cartographic data)

Ontology for generalization

Nicholas Gould, William Mackaness, Guillaume Touya, Glen Hart (2014) Collaboration on an ontology for generalization https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/597113/2/ICAWorkshop2014GouldMackFinal.pdf https://kartographie.geo.tu-dresden.de/downloads/ica-gen/workshop2014/slides/nickgould_vienna_2014.pdf

William Mackaness, Nick Gould, Sean Bechhofer, Dirk Burghardt, Cecile Duchene, Robert Stevens, Guillaume Touya (2015) Thematic workshop on building an ontology of generalisation for on-demand mapping http://generalisation.icaci.org/images/files/workshop/ThemWorkshop/ThematicOntologyOnDemand_Paris2015.pdf

ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation http://generalisation.icaci.org/index.php/generalisation-ontologies

Gould, Nicholas, and William Mackaness. "From taxonomies to ontologies: formalizing generalization knowledge for on-demand mapping." Cartography and Geographic Information Science 43.3 (2016): 208-222. https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/582556/1/From%20taxonomies%20to%20ontologies%20open.pdf

Gould, Nicholas (2014) Formalising cartographic generalisation knowledge in an ontology to support on-demand mapping http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/344342/1/thesis_nick_gould%20revised.pdf

Foerster, Theodor, Jantien Stoter, and Menno-Jan Kraak. "Challenges for automated generalisation at European mapping agencies: a qualitative and quantitative analysis." The Cartographic Journal 47.1 (2010): 41-54. http://www.theodor-foerster.de/articles/cj_foerster_et_al_rev1.pdf Tables discussing different generalisation strategies for different types of features,

Foerster, Theodor (2010) Web-based Architecture for On-demand Maps -Integrating Meaningful Generalization Processing http://www.itc.nl/library/papers_2010/phd/foerster.pdf PhD Thesis

McMaster and Shea (1992) Generalization in Digital Cartography http://portal.survey.ntua.gr/main/courses/geoinfo/admcarto/lecture_notes/generalisation/bibliography/mcmaster_shea_1992.pdf One of the papers defining generalisation operators taxonomies

Hongbo Gong (2011) Generalization of Road Network for an Embedded Car Navigation System https://mediatum.ub.tum.de/doc/1071388/1071388.pdf

Xiang Zhang (2012) Automated evaluation of generalized topographic maps —supported by formalization and data enrichment techniques http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.304.5369&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Related work

Scheider, S., & Tomko, M. (2016, July). Knowing Whether Spatio-Temporal Analysis Procedures Are Applicable to Datasets. In FOIS (pp. 67-80).https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Martin_Tomko2/publication/301621825_Knowing_whether_spatio-temporal_analysis_procedures_are_applicable_to_datasets/links/571e036c08aefa64889993bf/Knowing-whether-spatio-temporal-analysis-procedures-are-applicable-to-datasets.pdf AURIN paper with ontology design pattern for relation between data and "support" / "measure" references.

Sabine Timpf (1998) Hierarchical Structures in Map Series https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sabine_Timpf/publication/243722418_Hierarchical_Structures_in_Map_Series/links/02e7e530b09e05903a000000.pdf