TY - GEN
T1 - An ontology design pattern for cartographic map scaling
AU - Carral, David
AU - Scheider, Simon
AU - Janowicz, Krzysztof
AU - Vardeman, Charles
AU - Krisnadhi, Adila Alfa
AU - Hitzler, Pascal
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84885008832&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_6
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84885008832
SN - 9783642382871
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 76
EP - 93
BT - The Semantic Web
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 10th International Conference on The Semantic Web: Semantics and Big Data, ESWC 2013
Y2 - 26 May 2013 through 30 May 2013
ER -