Advances in Spatial Data Handling and Analysis Select Papers from the 16th IGU Spatial Data Handling Symposium

This book contains a selection of papers from the 16th International Symposium on Spatial Data Handling (SDH), the premier long-running forum in geographical information science. This collection offers readers exemplary contributions to geospatial scholarship and practice from the conference's 30th anniversary.

Introduction.- Alternative GIS (alt.gis) and the six senses of the new mind.- Enriching Navigation Instructions to Support the Formation of Mental Maps.- A Classification of User Contributions on the Participatory Geoweb.- Identifying Locally- And Globally-Distinctive Urban Place Descriptors from Heterogeneous User-Generated Content.- Identifying Optimal Study Areas and Spatial Aggregation Units for Point-based VGI from Multiple Sources.- A General Framework For Event Detection From Social Media.- The Uncertain Geographic Context Problem in Identifying Activity Centers Using Mobile Phone Positioning Data and Point of Interest Data.- Mining Co-Location Patterns between Network Spatial Phenomena.- How to model roads in Open Street Map? A method for evaluating the fitness-for-use of the network for navigation.- Development of a nationwide road change database for the U.S. in the post-recession years (2008–2012).- Revising the Self-Best-Fit Strategy for Stroke Generation.- A Spatio-temporal Decision Support Framework for Large Scale Logistics Distribution in the Metropolitan Area.- Local Absolute Vertical Accuracy Computation of Wide-Coverage Digital Terrain Models.- Analyzing the influence of ethnic composition and immigrant residents on the spatial distribution of violent crime.- An Informed Virtual Geographic Environment Enhanced with Qualitative and Quantitative Information for the Geosimulations of Zoonosis Propagation.- A Stochastic Method for the Generation of Optimized Building Layouts Respecting Urban Regulations.- Spatial Variation of Privacy Measured Through Individual Uniqueness Based on Simple US Demographics Data.- Monte Carlo-Based Analysis of the Effect of Positional and Thematic Uncertainties on Biodiversity Models.- Examining Tail Distributions Of Moran’s I Statistic Through Intensive Simulations.- Index.