Urban and Regional Data Management: UDMS 2009 Annual

Table of contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
Part I: Three dimensional modeling......Page 14
Procedural façade textures for 3D city models......Page 16
A SWOT analysis on the implementation of Building Information Models within the geospatial environment......Page 28
Design and development of a visualization tool for 3D geospatial data in CityGML format......Page 44
Extruding building footprints to create topologically consistent 3D city models......Page 52
Attribute grammar for 3D city models......Page 62
Developing 3D navigation and 3D buffering tools with geo-DBMS for disaster management......Page 72
Interoperable location based services for 3D cities on the web using user generated content from OpenStreetMap......Page 88
Building feature service: Bring rich semantic building information into 3D city model......Page 98
Part II: Spatial data infrastructures and databases......Page 108
Complying with the INSPIRE implementation rules—a case study......Page 110
\"GeoPortal Network\"—more process catalyst than project......Page 118
Managing geographical data in the French administration: le Conseil Général......Page 128
Quantifying transaction costs of geoinformation: Experiments in national information structures in Sweden and Germany......Page 142
Standards and Spatial Data Infrastructures to help the navigation of blind pedestrian in urban areas......Page 152
Establishing a sub-national SDI in Bahia state (Brazil)—its limits and possibilities......Page 164
N-Tuple property parcel database for South Florida: Development and research potentials......Page 172
Land market as indicator of spatial development trends: A case of Slovenian rural land market......Page 184
Modeling spatial constraints in conceptual database design of network applications......Page 198
Are the morphing techniques useful for cartographic generalization?......Page 208
Road junction generalization in large scale geodatabases......Page 218
Part III: Risk and disaster management......Page 228
Supporting the development of shared situational awareness for civilian crisis management with Geographic Information Science—research plan......Page 230
Cooperation among Dutch municipalities makes geo-information accessible for regional disaster management organizations......Page 244
Information support for collaboration in emergency response......Page 252
Building ontologies for disaster management: Seismic risk domain......Page 272
Development of a WPS process chaining tool and application in a disaster management use case for urban areas......Page 282
Application of spatial data infrastructure and GIS for disaster management......Page 290
Assessing building vulnerability using synergistically remote sensing and civil engineering......Page 300
From mural map to GIS: Mapping urban vulnerability in Bucharest......Page 314
Part IV: Environmental planning, analysis and e-government......Page 326
The use of GIS in landscape protection plan in Sicily......Page 328
Milano: Developments in the management of green areas through computerization......Page 340
Understanding environmental data in Greece through national limitations and epistemic communities......Page 350
Benchmarking urban development indicators—comparing apples to apples......Page 360
An empirical analysis of urban land-use dynamics......Page 374
Collaborative e-governance: Describing and pre-calibrating the digital milieu in urban and regional planning......Page 386
Monitoring and assessment of urban environments using space-borne earth observation data......Page 398
Ameliorating the spatial resolution of high resolution satellite data for use in urban areas......Page 412
Beyond the internet—increasing participation in community events by text messaging......Page 422
Part V: Traffic and road monitoring......Page 432
Survey, rendering and management of Pisa Municipality roads......Page 434
A spatio-temporal GIS-based multi agent traffic micro-simulation for identifying the most important accident locations......Page 440
Commuting, why a door-to-door approach? The situation in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic......Page 452
An approach for intelligent decision support system for urban traffic monitoring......Page 468
Author index......Page 478