Landscape features, standards, and semantics in U.S. national topographic mapping databases
By: Dalia Varanka
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Abstract
The objective of this paper is to examine the contrast between local, field-surveyed topographical representation and feature representation in digital, centralized databases and to clarify their ontological implications. The semantics of these two approaches are contrasted by examining the categorization of features by subject domains inherent to national topographic mapping. When comparing five USGS topographic mapping domain and feature lists, results indicate that multiple semantic meanings and ontology rules were applied to the initial digital database, but were lost as databases became more centralized at national scales, and common semantics were replaced by technological terms.
| Publication type | Book |
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| Publication Subtype | Conference publication |
| Title | Landscape features, standards, and semantics in U.S. national topographic mapping databases |
| ISBN | 9780769535272 |
| DOI | 10.1109/GEOWS.2009.29 |
| Year Published | 2009 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | IEEE |
| Publisher location | New York, NY |
| Description | 6 p. |
| Larger Work Title | Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Web Services, GEOWS 2009 |
| First page | 152 |
| Last page | 157 |
| Conference Title | International Conference on Advanced Geographic Information Systems and Web Services, GEOWS 2009 |
| Conference Location | Cancun, Mexico |
| Conference Date | 2009-02-01T00:00:00 |
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