SketchMapia: a Framework for Qualitative Alignment of Sketch Maps and Metric Maps
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The SketchMapia aims at relaxing technical constraints on Geographic Information Systems (GISs) by developing a framework taking freehand drawn sketch maps as input. This paper describes the framework that is designed to provide non-expert users of geospatial information with alternative methods for contributing data to and querying geographic information systems. The architecture of the framework consists of three components: (a) object recognizer, (b) qualitative qualifier, and (c) qualitative matcher. The web-interface of the project integrates these components and synchronizes the processes involve in the qualitative alignment of spatial objects.
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