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Matthieu Noucher¹ , Françoise Gourmelon², Christophe Claramunt³
Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 9-30, 2019, DOI:10.3166/rig.2019.00074
Abstract Extensive uses of geographic information generate a data deluge on many Web infrastructures. Monitoring and analyzing the content of these platforms is still a research challenge because these can be considered as very dynamic informational and algorithmic black boxes. The concept of “geographical information observatory” appears as an appropriate mean to monitor, analyze and then provide a better understanding of the evolution of the volume and flows of the spatial data available on a specific web infrastructure. Nevertheless, its implementation raises several methodological questions discussed in this paper, starting from the experimentation of a diachronic data observation of French Spatial… More >

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Quy Thy Truong¹ , Guillaume Touya², Cyril de Runz³
Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 31-56, 2019, DOI:10.3166/rig.2019.00073
Abstract Since vandalism is a serious matter for the quality of Volunteered Geographic Information, this paper aims at exploring machine learning techniques that enable its detection. First, a focus on the various definitions of vandalism highlights the complexity of this concept. This focus comprises a case study on proven vandals in OpenStreetMap (OSM). Second, we present an experimental vandalism detection on OSM data using a clustering-based outlier detection. The analysis of initial results leads to a discussion about the construction of an OSM vandalism corpus that would be useful in a supervised learning context.

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Johan Desbonnet¹ , Françoise Gourmelon¹, Christophe Claramunt²
Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 57-80, 2019, DOI:10.3166/rig.2019.00079
Abstract In the context of shoreline management and monitoring issues, inferring information and knowledge from the Web are considered as a crucial issue. However, Spatial Data Infrastructures promoters’ strategies and content are still unknown. This article presents a methodological approach to study the technical possibilities of access to the digital geographic information on online platforms often used for shoreline management and monitoring in France. Geographical data access on such platforms is granted by the presence of hyperlinks and Geospatial Web services. The analysis of this structural components (hyperlinks and Web services) shows a disparate situation for the access to geographical information.… More >

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Mattia Bunel, Ana-Maria Olteanu-Raimond, Cécile Duchêne
Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 81-106, 2019, DOI:10.3166/rig.2019.00075
Abstract This paper proposes a methodology for transforming a position description expressed relatively in an indirect spatial reference system into an absolute position in a direct spatial reference system. This problem requires (1) to formalize the relative location elements, here in the form of a triplet model, which is used as a basis for the transformation from relative to absolute position, and (2) to investigate how the imperfection of the natural language can be taken into account in the modeling process. We propose to use fuzzy spatial objects and we will compare their implementations to identify the most appropriate approach to… More >

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Clément Moreau, Thomas Devogele, Laurent Etienne
Revue Internationale de Géomatique, Vol.29, No.1, pp. 107-128, 2019, DOI:10.3166/rig.2019.00077
Abstract Understanding mobility, whether physical in the spatial sense or virtual in the web navigation sense, raises many challenges in terms of monitoring individuals, spatial planning or activity recommendations. Having access today to many resources on the contextual nature of this mobility, one of the current concerns is to succeed in identifying groups of similar individuals with regard to their mobility. To do this, we propose a semantic trajectory model enriched by ontologies at the level of contextual data and allowing us to calculate the similarity between each episode of individual mobility. Subsequently, an editing distance is used to evaluate in… More >

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