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Online Geodatabases as a Source of Data for a Smart City World Model Building

Authors:
Diamantino R.G. Ferreira
Fátima C.R. Fazenda
Karolina Baras

Keywords: online geodatabases; place-based social networks; symbolic world model

Abstract:
Online geodatabases have been growing increasingly as they have become a crucial source of information, with increasing social networks providing location-related features to their users. The aim of this study is twofold. On one hand, as our main contribution, we make an overview of the most significant online geodatabases which aims at understanding what data they contain, how they are managed and updated and who are the major consumers of their data. On the other hand, we shortly describe our previously developed world model and propose a new type of data feeds coming from place-based social networks and online geodatabases. So far, this symbolic world model has been fed with data coming from manual editing and automatic sensor-based updating. We believe that the aggregation of these additional sources of data will provide a more rich description of places of interest in a city and will enable an automatic creation of topological and other types of relations between those places.

Pages: 47 to 54

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: July 20, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3727

ISBN: 978-1-61208-363-6

Location: Paris, France

Dates: from July 20, 2014 to July 24, 2014