Urban and Regional Data management

URBA N AN D REGIONA L

DAT A MANAGEMEN T

UDM S ANNUA L 200 9

A. KREK, M . RUMOR, S. ZLATANOVA & E.M. FENDEL - EDITORS

URBAN AND REGIONAL DATA MANAGEMENT

UDMS ANNUAL 2009

PROCEEDINGS OF THE URBAN DATA MANAGEMENT SOCIETY SYMPOSIUM 2009,

LJUBLJANA, SLOVENIA, 24-26 JUNE 2009

Urba n an d Regiona l

Dat a Managemen t

UDM S Annua l 200 9

Editors

Alenka Krek

HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

Massimo Rumor

University of Padova, Padova and University IUAV of Venice, Venice, Italy

Sisi Zlatanova & Elfriede Fendel

Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

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Table o f contents

Introduction

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Part I: Three dimensional modeling

Procedural facade textures for 3D city models 3

J. Bogdahn & V. Coors

A SWOT analysis on the implementation of Building Information Models

within the geospatial environment 15

U. Isikdag & S. Zlatanova

Design and development of a visualization tool for 3D geospatial data

in CityGML format

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M. Rumor & E. Roccatello

Extruding building footprints to create topologically consistent 3D city models 39

H. Ledoux & M. Meijers

Attribute grammar for 3D city models

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J. Schmittwilken, D. Dorschlag & L. Pliimer

Developing 3D navigation and 3D buffering tools with geo-DBMS for

disaster management 59

I.A. Musliman, C. Tet-Khuan, A. Abdul-Rahman & V. Coors

Interoperable location based services for 3D cities on the web using user

generated content from OpenStreetMap 75

A. Schilling, M. Over, S. Neubauer, P. Neis, G. Walenciak&A. Zipf

Building feature service: Bring rich semantic building information into 3D city model 85

H. Wang, A. Hamilton & Y. Song

Part II: Spatial data infrastructures and databases

Complying with the INSPIRE implementation rules—a case study 97

P. Liljergren, A. Ostman & F. Puigvert

"GeoPortal Network"—more process catalyst than project 105

J. Zevenbergen, H. Koerten, F. Welle Donker, J. Bulens,

M. Kuyper & M. Jellema

Managing geographical data in the French administration: le Conseil General 115

N. Polombo

Quantifying transaction costs of geoinformation: Experiments in national

information structures in Sweden and Germany 129

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Standards and Spatial Data Infrastructures to help the navigation of

blind pedestrian in urban areas 1

R. Yaagoubi, G. Edwards & T. Badard

Establishing a sub-national SDI in Bahia state (Brazil)—its limits and possibilities 1-1

GC. Pereira, C.A. Davis, Jr. & M.CF Rocha

N-Tuple property parcel database for South Florida: Development

and research potentials 1 59

D.C. Prosperi, C. Chagdes, J.E. Murillo & C.I. Cirloganu

Land market as indicator of spatial development trends: A case

of Slovenian rural land market ' 7

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A. Lisec & S. Drobne

Modeling spatial constraints in conceptual database design of network applications 185

J. Lisboa Filho & S.M. Stempliuc

Are the morphing techniques useful for cartographic generalization? 195

D.N. Pantazis, B. Karathanasis, M. Kassoli &Ath. Koukofikis

Road junction generalization in large scale geodatabases 205

S. Savino, M. Rumor & I. Lissandron

Part III: Risk and disaster management

Supporting the development of shared situational awareness for civilian

crisis management with Geographic Information Science—research plan 217

K. Virrantaus, J. Mdkeld & U. Demsar

Cooperation among Dutch municipalities makes geo-information accessible

for regional disaster management organizations 231

M. Jell em a

Information support for collaboration in emergency response 239

M.J. Kevany

Building ontologies for disaster management: Seismic risk domain 259

B. Murgante, G. Scardaccione & GL. Casas

Development of a WPS process chaining tool and application in a disaster

management use case for urban areas 269

B. Stollberg & A. Zipf

Application of spatial data infrastructure and GIS for disaster management 277

C. Jacobs, A. Riedijk, A. Scotta, P. Brooijmans & H.J. Scholten

Assessing building vulnerability using synergistically remote sensing

and civil engineering 287

H. Taubenbock, A. Roth, S. Dech, H. Mehl, J.C. Munich, L. Stempniewski & J. Zschau

From mural map to GIS: Mapping urban vulnerability in Bucharest 301

S. Rufat

Part IV: Environmental planning, analysis and e-government

The use of GIS in landscape protection plan in Sicily 315

F. Martinico & S.D. La Rosa

Milano: Developments in the management of green areas through computerization 327

TV. Catlaneo, F Di Maria, F Guzzetti, A. Privitera & P. Viskanic

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Understanding environmental data in Greece through national limitations

and epistemic communities 337

M. Kassoli & D.N. Pantazis

Benchmarking urban development indicators—comparing apples to apples 347

S. Fina

An empirical analysis of urban land-use dynamics 361

H.S. Hansen

Collaborative e-governance: Describing and pre-calibrating the digital

milieu in urban and regional planning 373

V. Lanza & D. C. Prosperi

Monitoring and assessment of urban environments using space-borne earth

observation data 385

T. Esch. S. Dech, A. Roth, M. Schmidt, H. Taubenbock, W. Heldens,

M. Thiel, M. Wurm & D. Klein

Ameliorating the spatial resolution of high resolution satellite data

for use in urban areas 399

K.G. Nikolakopoulos & P.I. Tsombos

Beyond the internet—increasing participation in community events by text messaging 409

C. Ellul, H. Rahemtulla & M. Haklay

Part V: Traffic and road monitoring

Survey, rendering and management of Pisa Municipality roads 421

G. Caroti &A. Piemonte

A spatio-temporal GIS-based multi agent traffic micro-simulation

for identifying the most important accident locations 427

M. Khalesian, M.R. Delavar & G.R. Shiran

Commuting, why a door-to-door approach? The situation in

Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic 439

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An approach for intelligent decision support system for urban traffic monitoring 455

A. Ionita, A. Zafiu, M. Dascalu, E. Franti & M. Visan

Author index 465

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Introductio n

A. Krek

HafenCity University Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

M. Rumor

University of Venice IUAV Venice, Italy

S. Zlatanova & E.M. Fendel

Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

Today's cities, a multifaceted network, are vibrant and constantly changing environments. Natu￾ral and human activities change these environments and consequently impact the quality of life.

Analysing these dynamics leads to a better understanding of urban change and development. Col￾lecting and modelling the data requires a holistic understanding and adequate methods for broach￾ing research issues related to the representation of the real world. Data management is extending

towards three dimensional representations and requires models that can integrate data from various

applications. Data and information sharing is increasing in importance as more member states join

the European Union. In addition to appropriate standards, legal agreements should be achieved

as well as technology should be made available for the seamless exchange of spatial information

through Europe.

Research related to the management of urban data has a long tradition. The challenges include

a variety of interesting research questions related to the collection, storage, modelling, and visu￾alisation of the data representing the real world in a computer-based environment. The Urban

Data Management Symposium (UDMS) focuses on these issues since the first conference was

organised in 1971 in Bonn, Germany. Since then, 26 successful symposia were organised in dif￾ferent locations in Europe. UDMS aims at providing a forum to discuss urban planning processes,

exchange ideas, share information on available technologies and to demonstrate and promote suc￾cessful information systems in local and regional government. Initially the symposia concentrated

on urban applications, but this has expanded to regional and rural interests and studies. During

the last several symposia, urban and regional planning has been addressed in its complexity and

integrity. Since 1995 the UDMS society has been including Central and Eastern Europe in its

scope and interest. Experiences in Central Europe have shown the importance of solving land

market problems in order to establish a free market economy. With the expansion of the European

Union, UDMS is attempting to provide an open discussion on challenges in the transition phases

and faster economical growth as well. With this ideal in mind, the 27th UDMS 09 symposium was

organised in Ljubljana, Slovenia, one of the new members of the united European Union.

This volume contains 40 articles (of the 60 presented at the symposium in Ljubljana), which

have been selected after extensive reviews facilitated by at least two independent reviewers. The

articles are organised in the following five parts: Three Dimensional Models, Spatial Data Infra￾structures and Databases, Risk and Disaster Management, Environmental Planning, Analysis and

E-government, and Road and Traffic Monitoring.

One of the main topics of the UDMS '09 is three dimensional (3D) models. In the past, the

research on three dimensional modelling has concentrated mostly on visualisation and the pos￾sibilities to facilitate visual impact assessment and communication among individuals involved

in city planning and design. Although these aspects remain important, new research topics are

emerging, such as the semantic aspects of urban models to improve data sharing and integration

across domains. Research and developments in automatic texture extraction continues, which is

important for creating realistic 3D city models. One of the articles presents a flexible way of

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