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From Spatial To Platial - The Role And Future Of Immersive Technologies In The Spatial Sciences, Alexander Klippel
From Spatial To Platial - The Role And Future Of Immersive Technologies In The Spatial Sciences, Alexander Klippel
Journal of Spatial Information Science
Immersive technologies such as virtual and augmented reality have been part of the technology mindset in computer and geospatial sciences early on. The promise of delivering realistic experiences to the human senses that are not bound by physical reality has inspired generations of scientists and entrepreneurs alike. However, the vision for immersive experiences has been in stark contrast to the ability to deliver at the technology end; the community has battled nuisances such as cybersickness, tethers, and the uncanny valley for the last decades. With the 'final wave' of immersive technologies, we are now able to fulfill a long-held promise …
Affordance-Based Individuation Of Junctions In Open Street Map, Simon Scheider, Jörg Possin
Affordance-Based Individuation Of Junctions In Open Street Map, Simon Scheider, Jörg Possin
Journal of Spatial Information Science
We propose an algorithm that can be used to identify automatically the subset of street segments of a road network map that corresponds to a junction. The main idea is to use turn-compliant locomotion affordances i.e. restricted patterns of supported movement in order to specify junctions independently of their data representation and in order to motivate tractable individuation and classification strategies. We argue that common approaches based solely on geometry or topology of the street segment graph are useful but insufficient proxies. They miss certain turn restrictions essential to junctions. From a computational viewpoint the main challenge of affordance-based individuation …