Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
5-2013
Abstract
The concepts of scale is at the core of cartographic abstraction and mapping. It defines which geographic phenomena should be displayed, which type of geometry and map symbol to use, which measures can be taken, as well as the degree to which features need to be exaggerated or spatially displaced. In this work, we present an ontology design pattern for map scaling using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) within a particular extension of the OWL RL profile. We explain how it can be used to describe scaling applications, to reason over scale levels, and geometric representations. We propose an axiomatization that allows us to impose meaningful constraints on the pattern, and, thus, to go beyond simple surface semantics. Interestingly, this includes several functional constraints currently not expressible in any of the OWL profiles. We show that for this specific scenario, the addition of such constraints does not increase the reasoning complexity which remains tractable.
Repository Citation
Carral, D.,
Scheider, S.,
Janowicz, K.,
Vardeman, C.,
Krisnadhi, A. A.,
& Hitzler, P.
(2013). An Ontology Design Pattern for Cartographic Map Scaling. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7882, 76-93.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/cse/177
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_6
Extended Technical Report
Comments
Attached is the unpublished, peer-reviewed version of the proceeding. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_6.
Presented at the 10th International Conference on the Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data, Montpellier, France, May 26-30, 3013.
Additional file is an extended technical report containing an appendix.