Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. User Generated Data, Social Network Data

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. What You See is What You Map: Geometry-Preserving Micro-Mapping for Smaller Geographic Objects with mapIT

      • Falko Schmid, Lutz Frommberger, Cai Cai, Christian Freksa

      Pages 3-19

   3. Trust as a Proxy Measure for the Quality of Volunteered Geographic Information in the Case of OpenStreetMap

      • Carsten Keßler, René Theodore Anton de Groot

      Pages 21-37

   4. A Thematic Approach to User Similarity Built on Geosocial Check-ins

      • Grant McKenzie, Benjamin Adams, Krzysztof Janowicz

      Pages 39-53

   5. Using Data from Location Based Social Networks for Urban Activity Clustering

      • Roberto Rösler, Thomas Liebig

      Pages 55-72

3. Remote Sensing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73

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   2. Automatic Extraction of Complex Objects from Land Cover Maps

      • Eliseo Clementini, Enrico Ippoliti

      Pages 75-93

   3. Automatic Extraction of Forests from Historical Maps Based on Unsupervised Classification in the CIELab Color Space

      • P.-A. Herrault, D. Sheeren, M. Fauvel, M. Paegelow

      Pages 95-112

4. Data Quality

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Selecting a Representation for Spatial Vagueness: A Decision Making Approach

      • Mohammed I. Humayun, Angela Schwering

      Pages 115-131

   3. Provenance Information in Geodata Infrastructures

      • Christin Henzen, Stephan Mäs, Lars Bernard

      Pages 133-151

5. Formal Semantics

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Matching Formal and Informal Geospatial Ontologies

      • Heshan Du, Natasha Alechina, Mike Jackson, Glen Hart

      Pages 155-171

   3. On the Formulation of Conceptual Spaces for Land Cover Classification Systems

      • Alkyoni Baglatzi, Werner Kuhn

      Pages 173-188

6. Data Mining, Agregation and Disagregation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 189-189

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   2. The Impact of Classification Approaches on the Detection of Hierarchies in Place Descriptions

      • Daniela Richter, Kai-Florian Richter, Stephan Winter

      Pages 191-206

   3. Error-Aware Spatio-Temporal Aggregation in the Model Web

      • Christoph Stasch, Edzer Pebesma, Benedikt Graeler, Lydia Gerharz

      Pages 207-224

   4. Privacy-Preserving Distributed Movement Data Aggregation

      • Anna Monreale, Wendy Hui Wang, Francesca Pratesi, Salvatore Rinzivillo, Dino Pedreschi, Gennady Andrienko et al.

      Pages 225-245

   5. Moving and Calling: Mobile Phone Data Quality Measurements and Spatiotemporal Uncertainty in Human Mobility Studies

      • Corina Iovan, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond, Thomas Couronné, Zbigniew Smoreda

      Pages 247-265

For the seventh consecutive year, the AGILE promotes the publication of a book collecting high-level scientific papers from unpublished fundamental scientific research in the field of Geographic Information Science. As the agenda for Europe 2020 is currently being set, this book demonstrates how geographic information science is at the heart of Europe. The contributions open perspectives for innovative services that will strengthen our European economy, and which will inform citizens about their environment while preserving their privacy. The latest challenges of spatial data infrastructures are addressed, such as the connection with the Web vocabularies or the representation of genealogy. User generated data (through social networks or through interactive cameras and software) is also an important breakthrough in our domain. A trend to deal more and more with time, events, ancient data, a nd activities is noticeable this year as well. This volume collects the 23 best full papers presented during the 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science, held between 14 and 17 May 2013 in Leuven, Belgium.

• AGILE-2013

• Spatial Applications Division, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Heverlee, Belgium

  Danny Vandenbroucke

• COGIT, Institut Geographique National France (IGN-France), Saint-Mandé Cedex, France

  Bénédicte Bucher

• Public Management Institute, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Leuven, Belgium

  Joep Crompvoets

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