Smart Campus – My Experiences and Perspective

This paper was part of Advancing the Spatially Enable Smart Campus (2013). The Center for Spatial Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara organized and hosted a specialist meeting about the smart campus. The meeting brought together academic and industry representatives with interest in conceiving, designing, and building a smart campus. It combined “thinking big” (asking what will make campuses smarter in the future) with “acting small” (focusing on specific organizational and technological measures and their evaluation)

Context-Based Customization of Routing Functions for Web GIS Applications

This poster presentation features three route planning applications developed by the Florida International University GIS Center and the Geomatics program at the University of Florida, and outlines their context based differences. The first route planner has been developed for cyclists in three Florida counties, i.e. Miami Dade County, Broward County, and Palm Beach County. The second route planner computes safe pedestrian routes to schools and has been developed for Miami Dade County. The third route planner combines pre-compiled cultural/eco routes and point-to-point route planning for the City of Coral Gables. This poster highlights the differences in design (user interface) and implementation (routing options) between the three route planners as a result of a different application context and target audience

Web Based Bicycle Trip Planning for Broward County, Florida

To promote the use of bicycle transportation mode in times of increasing urban traffic congestion, Broward County Metropolitan Planning Organization funded the development of a Web-based trip planner for cyclists. This presentation demonstrates the integration of the ArcGIS Server 9.3 environment with the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Google Maps API and the Google Local Search Control for Maps API. This allows the use of Google mashup GIS functionality, i.e., Google local search for selection of trip start, trip destination, and intermediate waypoints, and the integration of Google Maps base layers. The ArcGIS Network Analyst extension is used for the route search, where algorithms for fastest, safest, simplest, most scenic, and shortest routes are imbedded. This presentation also describes how attributes of the underlying network sources have been combined to facilitate the search for optimized routes

MMC 4936 Web GIS for Journalists

Web GIS is a special topics course designed to give students a solid foundation in Web publishing and Web GIS. By the end of the semester, students will: Learn the basics of HTML5 and CSS3. Learn the basics of JavaScript and JQuery Produce a new layout for the Zen Garden project. Participate in a crowdsourced project on King Tide Day. Produce an interactive photo slideshow with HTML5/CSS3. Participate in a mobile-social reporting project on Election Day. Produce a multimedia map story with HTML5/CSS3. Learn how to give and receive constructive criticism

User Interface Design for Semantic Query Expansion in Geodata Repositories

Semantic query expansion is the process of supplementing a user query with additional terms that interpret and extend the user\u27s information needs. This work presents the results of an empirical study that investigates user preferences for different designs of user interfaces that provide semantic query expansion for data search from geo-data repositories. The study assesses further whether it is possible to map qualitative gradations of semantic relatedness between geographic key terms to ranges of numerical similarity values

Web Based Bicycle Trip Planning for Broward County, Florida

To promote the use of bicycle transportation mode in times of increasing urban traffic congestion, Broward County Metropolitan Planning Organization funded the development of a Web-based trip planner for cyclists. This presentation demonstrates the integration of the ArcGIS Server 9.3 environment with the ArcGIS JavaScript Extension for Google Maps API and the Google Local Search Control for Maps API. This allows the use of Google mashup GIS functionality, i.e., Google local search for selection of trip start, trip destination, and intermediate waypoints, and the integration of Google Maps base layers. The ArcGIS Network Analyst extension is used for the route search, where algorithms for fastest, safest, simplest, most scenic, and shortest routes are imbedded. This presentation also describes how attributes of the underlying network sources have been combined to facilitate the search for optimized routes

Using GIS and Open Web Resources to Recon struct Great Tang Records of the Western Regions

This paper applies Geographic Information Systems (GIS) methods and Open Web resources to reconstruct Tang Dynasty Buddhist Pilgrim XuanZang‘s travel routes and 180+ city states, stupas and monasteries he had recorded in the Great Tang Records on Western Regions (大唐西域記). Prior mapping efforts of XuanZang travel routes were selected for digitization, using reference points of the 80+ known locations XuanZang had mentioned in his biography, A Biography of the Tripitaka Master of the Great Ci’en Monastery of the Great Tang Dynasty(大唐大慈恩寺三藏法師傳). The authors then applied a cost-distance analysis method to validate the digitized routes by calculating high to low cost grids using four layers of rasters, including land cover, slope, distance to cities, and distance to water bodies (primarily rivers). This spatial method allows us to map the XuanZang travel routes more precisely. In addition to retracing XuanZang travel routes, the authors compiled coordinates of the 180+ locations recorded in the Travelogue. We retrieved locations in Wikipedia place entries with reference of XuanZang, and through the use of open sources, such as “Mapping Buddhist Monasteries” project to consolidate places recorded by XuanZang or referenced to XuanZang. The historical place names in Central and West Asia, mentioned in XuanZang’s recordings, have multiple Wikipedia entries in many languages. Extractions and compilation of these names can help to expand efforts of geographic thesauri of historical place names