Zur Unterstützung der Ziele der Kommission GIScience werden in kleinerem Rahmen auch Forschungsprojekte konzipiert und realisiert - hier in kompakter Form zusammengestellt:
Accessible Map: Web-based maps for visually impaired people.
AccessibleMap aims to give better access to online web-based maps, especially city maps, for people with visual impairments. The goal is to improve the orientation of the target group in cities, and therefore to support their mobility and independence. AccessibleMap focuses on a semantic spatial description based on the user’s needs and requirements.
Semantic Enrichment of Geodata: an Approach towards Producing Transferable Knowledge.
This PhD-project focuses on semantic mapping between the ontology classes formalizing the spatial entities and the field representation of geographic reality in order to produce transferable knowledge.