OPEN GEOSPATIAL DATA FOR URBAN GREEN AREAS

Extracting Urban Land Use from Linked Open Geospatial Data

The ever-increasing availability of linked open geospatial data provides an unprecedented source of geo-information to describe urban environments. This wealth of data should be turned into actionable knowledge: for example, open data could be used as a proxy or substitute for closed or expensive information. The successful employment of linked open geospatial data can pave the way for innovati...

Towards Open Big Geospatial Data for geodata.gov.gr

Open data provided by the public sector constitute a significant opportunity for growth. PublicaMundi (http://publicamundi.eu) is an EU FP7-ICT project aiming to make open geospatial data easier to discover, reuse, and share by fully supporting their complete publishing lifecycle in open data catalogues. To achieve this, PublicaMundi extends and integrates leading open source software for open ...

Do green roofs provide habitat for bats in urban areas ?

As the world population continues to increase, with more than 50 percent of people now residing within cities, remaining natural and semi-natural habitats within urban areas play an increasingly important role for people and wildlife (Mortberg and Wallentinus, 2000; Benedict and McMahon, 2002; Jim, 2004; Town and Country Planning Association, 2004; Bierwagen, 2007; Gill et al., 2007; Tratalos e...

Advanced Uses of Open Geospatial© Web Technologies for Planetary Data

Interlinking and visualizing linked open data with geospatial reference data

An increasing number of thematic datasets are published as RDF graphs and linked to other datasets by identifying equivalent resources in other relevant datasets. Among the set of properties usually used as data linking criteria, geolocation (addresses, locations, coordinates ) remains one of the most commonly used. However, resources that actually refer to complex topographic features are gene...