Basic maps are necessary for research of rural settlements, showing the general shape settlement, including streets, building layout and elevation. However, ready-made based on civil engineering surveys do not exist especially in many small settlements developing countries. This paper proposes a method creating base with limited manpower budget by using GPS Grasshopper (a plug-in Rhinoceros). S...

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background : studies have shown that noise pollution has harmful effects on human health. the sound of traffic is the main source of noise pollution in cities. the purpose of this study was to determine noise pollution using a geographical information system (gis) in the main streets of kashan, iran. methods: in this study, 180 noise samples were collected from 20 regions of the main streets in...

Navigation is one of the most popular cloud computing services. But in virtually all cloud-based navigation systems, the client must reveal her location and destination to the cloud service provider in order to learn the fastest route. In this work, we present a cryptographic protocol for navigation on city streets that provides privacy for both the client’s location and the service provider’s ...

The paper presents the work in progress to use the digital data of the Authoritative Topographic Cartographic Information System (ATKIS), the geobase information system of the German national mapping agencies, to automatically deduce location maps. It is possible to render directions in different ways. First of all there is to distinguish between a textual and a graphic kind of route descriptio...

Problem statement. In the cities of Ukraine there are entire systems urban noise sources, namely: road transport, industrial and municipal enterprises, rail transport (trams, railways), air water playgrounds, stadiums sports grounds, etc. Some these sources operate in residential area, some − on its borders. area city, most powerful source noise, which is more common, traffic flows through main...

Historical maps are precious materials, which show various spatial distribution of land use, streets and so on of the historical importance at the time the maps were produced. They may be a dependable source of information regarding concepts of city planning of the past. In analysis of historical maps, the most practical method is to compare them with the present ones, for instance, by overlayi...