Geographic Information Science: 6th International Conference, Giscience 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010. Proceedings (lecture Notes In Computer Science)

Since its inception in Savannah, Georgia (USA) in 2000, the highly successful GIScience conferenceseries (www.giscience.org)has regularlyattractedover250 researchers from all over the world whose common interest lies in advancing the research frontiers of fundamental aspects of the production, dissemination, and use of geographic information. The conference is bi-annual and brings together leading researchers from all cognate disciplines re?ecting the interdisciplinary breadth of GIScience, including (but not limited to) geography, cognitive s- ence, computer science, engineering, information science, mathematics, philo- phy, psychology, social science, and (geo)statistics. Following the, literally breathtaking,conference in Park City, Utah (USA) at 2103m, the sixth GIScience 2010 conference returned to Europe for the second time. The 2010 conference was held in Zurich, Switzerland, a place nominated repeatedly as the world’s most livable (if not cheapest!) city. Zurich is also a GIScience landmark, as in 1990 one of the founders of the GIScience conference series, Dr. Michael Goodchild, delivered a memorable talk setting out how f- damental research on GISystems could turn into GIScience at the very same conference location during the Spatial Data Handling Symposium. Front Matter....Pages - A Conceptual Data Model for Trajectory Data Mining....Pages 1-15 Time-Geographic Density Estimation for Moving Point Objects....Pages 16-26 Microtheories for Spatial Data Infrastructures - Accounting for Diversity of Local Conceptualizations at a Global Level....Pages 27-41 The Family of Conceptual Neighborhood Graphs for Region-Region Relations....Pages 42-55 Detecting Road Intersections from GPS Traces....Pages 56-69 Semantic Referencing – Determining Context Weights for Similarity Measurement....Pages 70-84 User-Centric Time-Distance Representation of Road Networks....Pages 85-99 Efficient Data Collection and Event Boundary Detection in Wireless Sensor Networks Using Tiny Models....Pages 100-114 Combining Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration within 3D City Models....Pages 115-129 Cognitive Invariants of Geographic Event Conceptualization: What Matters and What Refines?....Pages 130-144 A Visibility and Spatial Constraint-Based Approach for Geopositioning....Pages 145-159 Area-Preserving Subdivision Schematization....Pages 160-174 Periodic Multi-labeling of Public Transit Lines....Pages 175-188 Comparing the Effectiveness of GPS-Enhanced Voice Guidance for Pedestrians with Metric- and Landmark-Based Instruction Sets....Pages 189-203 A Mismatch Description Language for Conceptual Schema Mapping and Its Cartographic Representation....Pages 204-218 Detecting Change in Snapshot Sequences....Pages 219-233 Multi-source Toponym Data Integration and Mediation for a Meta-Gazetteer Service....Pages 234-248 Qualitative Change to 3-Valued Regions....Pages 249-263 Collaborative Generalisation: Formalisation of Generalisation Knowledge to Orchestrate Different Cartographic Generalisation Processes....Pages 264-278 Automatic Extraction of Destinations, Origins and Route Parts from Human Generated Route Directions....Pages 279-294 Visual Exploration of Eye Movement Data Using the Space-Time-Cube....Pages 295-309 5D Data Modelling: Full Integration of 2D/3D Space, Time and Scale Dimensions....Pages 310-324 Back Matter....Pages - Since its inception in Savannah, Georgia (USA) in 2000, the highly successful GIScience conferenceseries (www.giscience.org)has regularlyattractedover250 researchers from all over the world whose common interest lies in advancing the research frontiers of fundamental aspects of the production, dissemination, and use of geographic information. The conference is bi-annual and brings together leading researchers from all cognate disciplines re?ecting the interdisciplinary breadth of GIScience, including (but not limited to) geography, cognitive s- ence, computer science, engineering, information science, mathematics, philo- phy, psychology, social science, and (geo)statistics. Following the, literally breathtaking, conference in Park City, Utah (USA) at 2103m, the sixth GIScience 2010 conference returned to Europe for the second time. The 2010 conference was held in Zurich, Switzerland, a place nominated repeatedly as the world's most livable (if not cheapest!) city. Zurich is also a GIScience landmark, as in 1990 one of the founders of the GIScience conference series, Dr. Michael Goodchild, delivered a memorable talk setting out how f- damental research on GISystems could turn into GIScience at the very same conference location during the Spatial Data Handling Symposium Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographic Information Science, GIScience 2010, held in Zurich, Switzerland, in September 2010. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. While traditional research topics such as spatio-temporal representations, spatial relations, interoperability, geographic databases, cartographic generalization, geographic visualization, navigation, spatial cognition, are alive and well in GIScience, research on how to handle massive and rapidly growing databases of dynamic space-time phenomena at fine-grained resolution for example, generated through sensor networks, has clearly emerged as a new and popular research frontier in the field