| Publication type: |
Article in Proceedings |
| Author: |
Mihai Codescu, Daniel Couto Vale, Oliver Kutz, Till Mossakowski |
| Editor: |
D. Kolas, M. Perry, R. Grütter, M. Koubarakis |
| Title: |
Ontology-based Route Planning for OpenStreetMap |
| Book / Collection title: |
Terra Cognita 2012: Foundations, Technologies and Applications of the Geospatial Web |
| Volume: |
901 |
| Page(s): |
62 – 73 |
| Series: |
CEUR-WS online proceedings |
| Year published: |
2012 |
| Abstract: |
We develop a web service for route finding in OpenStreetMap (OSM)
following an activity-centred approach: the aim is not only to assist the user in
travelling from A to B, but also to perform a series of specified activities along
the way. This is particularly important e.g. for electric mobility, where activities
can take place while the battery of the car is recharging. For specifying activities,
our tool uses an ontology of spatially-located activities. This ontology then needs
to be related to OSM which provides semantic metadata in form of tags. We
organised the tags into another ontology (which is then connected to the first one
via an ontology mapping), providing thus not only better reference for the OSM
community, but also allowing to enrich the ontological semantics of the tags, to
deal with their evolving nature and to extract implicit information using ontology-
based data access. Moreover, we report first results on an ongoing query corpus
experiment involving the OSM community targeted at improving the automated
understanding of free text input for certain route finding tasks. |
| Internet: |
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-901/paper6.pdf |
| PDF Version: |
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-901/paper6.pdf |
| Keywords: |
OSM ontology route OSMonto tagging |
| Status: |
Reviewed |
| Last updated: |
25. 04. 2014 |
