TY - GEN
T1 - Design and development of personal GeoServices for universities
AU - Ballatore, Andrea
AU - Pham, Thoa
AU - Yin, Junjun
AU - Truong-Hong, Linh
AU - Carswell, James D.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Personal GeoServices are emerging as an interaction paradigm linking users to information rich environments like a university campus or to Big Data sources like the Internet of Things by delivering spatially intelligent web-services. OpenStreetMap (OSM) constitutes a valuable source of spatial base-data that can be extracted, integrated, and utilised with such heterogeneous data sources for free. In this paper, we present a Personal GeoServices application built on OSM spatial data and university-specific business data for staff, faculty, and students. While generic products such as Google Maps and Google Earth enable basic forms of spatial exploration, the domain of a university campus presents specific business information needs, such as “What classes are scheduled in that room over there?” and “How can I get to Prof. Murray’s office from here?” Within the framework of the StratAG project (www.StratAG.ie), an eCampus Demonstrator was developed for the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) to assist university users in exploring and analysing their surroundings within a detailed data environment. This work describes this system in detail, discussing the usage of OSM vector data, and providing insights for developers of spatial information systems for personalised visual exploration of an area.
AB - Personal GeoServices are emerging as an interaction paradigm linking users to information rich environments like a university campus or to Big Data sources like the Internet of Things by delivering spatially intelligent web-services. OpenStreetMap (OSM) constitutes a valuable source of spatial base-data that can be extracted, integrated, and utilised with such heterogeneous data sources for free. In this paper, we present a Personal GeoServices application built on OSM spatial data and university-specific business data for staff, faculty, and students. While generic products such as Google Maps and Google Earth enable basic forms of spatial exploration, the domain of a university campus presents specific business information needs, such as “What classes are scheduled in that room over there?” and “How can I get to Prof. Murray’s office from here?” Within the framework of the StratAG project (www.StratAG.ie), an eCampus Demonstrator was developed for the National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM) to assist university users in exploring and analysing their surroundings within a detailed data environment. This work describes this system in detail, discussing the usage of OSM vector data, and providing insights for developers of spatial information systems for personalised visual exploration of an area.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-16667-4_1
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-16667-4_1
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84946108378
SN - 9783319166667
T3 - Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
SP - 3
EP - 26
BT - Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems (IFandGIS 2015) - 7th International Workshop on Information Fusion and GeographicInformation Systems
A2 - Popovich, Vasily
A2 - Korolenko, Kyrill
A2 - Gensel, Jerome
A2 - Claramunt, Christophe
A2 - Schrenk, Manfred
PB - Kluwer Academic Publishers
T2 - 7th International Workshop on Information Fusion and Geographic Information Systems: Deep Virtualization for Mobile GIS, IFandGIS 2015
Y2 - 18 May 2015 through 20 May 2015
ER -