The Question of Surplus Cattle in India: A Spatial View

This chapter introduces a spatial view to e-participation in urban governance which is based on the technological core of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and their more recent transformation into service architectures. The chapter begins with the premise that the technological realms are available today in professional software packages and in open source software environments. It focuses on the utilization of GIS and various methodologies in participatory planning projects. The technical descriptions are limited to a degree that the reader can understand the applications envisaged. The chapter describes developments in the GIS domain which are summarized under the term ‘Public Participation GIS’ (PPGIS) since the 1990s. In 2005 however, the launch of Google Earth changed the situation significantly: such mapping platforms—including Microsoft Bing and others—brought mapping functionality to the computers of hundreds of millions of internet users and soon after, the term “volunteered geographic information” was created. It refers to the two-way communication possibilities using geospatial tools and to the participation of citizens in planning initiatives. The chapter highlights a few of such applications in urban planning and administration and discusses the situation in developing and emerging countries, while posing the question of whether or not such options may lead to an empowerment of citizens.

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A Spatial View on Temperature Change and Variability During the Last Deglaciation: A Model Analysis

Climate Change ◽

10.1007/978-3-7091-0973-1_6 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 79-91 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Didier M. Roche ◽

Hans Renssen ◽

Didier Paillard

Keyword(s):

Temperature Change ◽

Model Analysis ◽

Last Deglaciation ◽

The Last Deglaciation ◽

Spatial View

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A Spatial View of How United States Cesarean Section Rates Changed from 1990 to 2014

The Professional Geographer ◽

10.1080/00330124.2019.1578979 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 71 (4) ◽

pp. 762-769

Author(s):

Kathleen R. Weimer ◽

Carson J. Q. Farmer ◽

Colleen E. Reid

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Cesarean Section ◽

Spatial View

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Learning to Generate Maps from Trajectories

Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence ◽

10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5435 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 34 (01) ◽

pp. 890-897 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Sijie Ruan ◽

Cheng Long ◽

Jie Bao ◽

Chunyang Li ◽

Zisheng Yu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Road Network ◽

Traditional Approach ◽

Trajectory Data ◽

Embedded Devices ◽

The Road ◽

Mobile Objects ◽

Map Generation ◽

Spatial View ◽

Topological Connectivity ◽

Wide Usage

Accurate and updated road network data is vital in many urban applications, such as car-sharing, and logistics. The traditional approach to identifying the road network, i.e., field survey, requires a significant amount of time and effort. With the wide usage of GPS embedded devices, a huge amount of trajectory data has been generated by different types of mobile objects, which provides a new opportunity to extract the underlying road network. However, the existing trajectory-based map recovery approaches require many empirical parameters and do not utilize the prior knowledge in existing maps, which over-simplifies or over-complicates the reconstructed road network. To this end, we propose a deep learning-based map generation framework, i.e., DeepMG, which learns the structure of the existing road network to overcome the noisy GPS positions. More specifically, DeepMG extracts features from trajectories in both spatial view and transition view and uses a convolutional deep neural network T2RNet to infer road centerlines. After that, a trajectory-based post-processing algorithm is proposed to refine the topological connectivity of the recovered map. Extensive experiments on two real-world trajectory datasets confirm that DeepMG significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art methods.

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The confluence of ‘wisdom’ and ‘apocalyptic’ in 4QInstruction

In die Skriflig/In Luce Verbi ◽

10.4102/ids.v49i2.1922 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 49 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Pieter M. Venter

Keyword(s):

Cognitive Analysis ◽

The World ◽

Spatial View

A confluence of sapiential and apocalyptic thought is found in 4QInstruction. This article investigates this phenomenon in 4QInstruction by studying the two main genres used in the book, indicating the central role of the term raz nihyeh [the existing secret] in the book and presenting a cognitive analysis of this term in 4Q416 2 III. The thesis is proposed that anextended embodied, chronistic and spatial view of the world is found in this passage.Die samevloeiing van ‘wysheid’ en ‘apokaliptiese denke’ in 4Qinstruction. ’n Samevloeiing van wysheids- en apokaliptiese denke kom in 4QInstruction voor. Hierdie artikel ondersoek bogenoemde verskynsel in 4QInstruction deur die betudering van die twee hoofgenres wat in die boek voorkom. Dit dui die sentrale rol van die term raz niyeh [die geheim wat bestaan]in die boek aan en bied ’n kognitiewe analise van hierdie term in 4Q416 2 III. Dit word gestel dat ’n uitgebreide beliggaamde, kronistiese en ruimtelike beskouing van die wêreld in hierdie gedeelte voorkom.

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