Automatic road map updating has been one of the difficult and important research topics in the community of geomatics. An operational road map updating system should include three key components: the generation of a new version of roads, the automatic road change detection/updating and the spatio-temporal modelling of road data. Special considerations have to be given to the spatio-temporal mod...

This paper presents a prototype system for automated generation of deformed maps, based on a psychological model in the field of cognitive map. The system consists of two parts; map deformation and map database management. The map deformation part has two functions; road deformation and landmark relocation. In the road deformation process, each road segment is transformed in parallel and iterat...

Statistical models that can generate a road-traffic noise map for city or area where only elementary urban design factors are determined, and no concrete morphology, including buildings roads, is given, provide basic but essential information developing quiet sustainable city. Long-term cost-effective measures be considered at early planning stages by using the statistical map. An artificial ne...

Road networks are important for modelling the urban geographic environment. It is necessary to determine the spatial relationships of road intersections when using maps to help researchers conduct virtual urban geographic experiments (because a road intersection might occur as a connected cross or as an unconnected bridge overpass). Based on the concept of using different map layers to organize...

Path planning from road maps is a task that may involve multiple goal interactions and multiple ways of achieving a goal. This problem is recognized as a di cult problem solving task. In this domain it is particularly interesting to explore learning techniques that can improve the problem solver's e ciency both at plan generation and plan execution. We want to study the problem from two particu...

Indian cities are experiencing an accelerated pace of growth since independence and are now emerging as centres of domestic and international investments in an era of economic reforms, liberalisation and globalization. This has created opportunities for technologists and planning professionals to guide and develop the process of planned development and management utilizing modern technologies. ...

This paper discusses the geometric correction of measured historical maps and the evaluation of accuracy with case studies on Silk Road maps, “Innermost Asia” and “Serindia,” made by Aurel Stein about 100 years ago, and Beijing maps, “Complete map of Peking, Qianlong period,” made about 250 years ago. The former case study deals with maps that cover thousand kilometers, and we delivered the err...