One of the complex documents in the real world is city maps. In these kinds of maps, text labels overlap by graphics with having a variety of fonts and styles in different orientations. Usually, text and graphic colour is not predefined due to various map publishers. In most city maps, text and graphic lines form a single connected component. Moreover, the common regions of text and graphic lin...

As their phenomenal book recounts, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) formed in fall of 2013, when a group activists gathered at San Francisco Tenant Union agreed to map rapidly escalating evictions city. Their first animated web map, where city appears be blown apart by evictions, quickly […]

By the end of this year visitors to the Flemish town of Mechelen can discover the city with the help of the new CityInMyPocket walking guide. Instead of following a person or a book, people can pick up a CityInMyPocket digital walking guide and go sightseeing at their own speed. So, leave your heavy guidebooks and many flyers at home. CityInMyPocket will tell you just as much, and even more. Ci...

Experiencing a city is different from panning over a map. Maps are powerful abstractions that cannot cover all aspects in dense and complex urban spaces where a lot of buildup, overlap, tunneling, underground and overground transportation is situated. In exploring such urban spaces, we explore the full dimensionality the city has to offer. This is an issue of both an added elevation dimension a...

The city Dresden provides information about the accessibility of the town for people with disabilities. In the city guide are detailed data of localities published. They are shown in the thematic city map together with path information. The concept presents possibilities and has prepared proposals for implementation, to create these offer more user-friendly, up to date and safer. The illustrati...

Two new species of the genus Stenohya Beier, 1967 are described from China: Stenohya pengaesp. n. (male and female; type locality Daming Mountain, Nanning City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region) and Stenohya huangisp. n. (female; type locality Gushan Mountain, Fuzhou City, Fujian Prov.).The presence of Stenohya pengaesp. n. in the tree crown of Castanopsis fabri represents a new habitat for Neo...

We present a model for growing procedural road networks in and close to cities. The main idea of our paper is that a city cannot be meaningfully simulated without taking its neighbourhood into account. A simple traffic simulation that considers this neighbourhood is then used to grow new major roads and to influence the locations of minor road growth. Waterways are introduced and used to help p...

This paper reports the results of an initial experiment on the acoustic description, called soundscape, of the city of Padova. A group of users has been involved in recording the sounds of the city and in tracking their position in space and in time using a web based interface. Collaboration and coordination among participants has been promoted using a wiki, where participants could assign them...

The map of a city’s streets constitutes a particular case of spatial complex network. However a city is not limited to its topology: it is above all a geometrical object whose particularity is to organize into short and long axes called streets. In this article we present and discuss two algorithms aiming at recovering the notion of street from a graph representation of a city. Then we show tha...

We develop a GIS database to store urban traffic accident data in digital style, and analyze these data in terms of their attribute and spatial characteristics to exploit the reasons of accidents and rank urban area with dangerous degrees. We establish a road network in MapInfo for a sample city. Second we collect three years’ death traffic accidents data of the city and link these data with ro...