Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kartographie e.v. Der Vizepräsident Prof. Dr. Manfred Buchroithner, TU Dresden, 01062 Dresden International Cartographic Association Executive Committee Prof. Dr. Manfred Buchroithner TU Dresden Institut für Kartographie 01062 Dresden Fon 0351/463-34809 Fax 0351/463-37028 E-Mail Vizepraesident-international@dgfk.net www.dgfk.net February 5, 2015 Nomination German National Committee nominates the following persons for the Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representations of the International Cartographic Association (ICA): Chair: Co-Chair: Dirk Burghardt, Prof. Dr. Dresden University of Technology Institute for Cartography Helmholtzstr. 10 01069 Dresden, Germany Phone: +49 351 463 36200 Fax: +49 351 463 37028 e-mail: dirk.burghardt@tu-dresden.de Cecile Duchene COGIT laboratory, IGN France phone: +33 1 43 98 85 43 e-mail: firstname.lastname(at)ign.fr Terms of reference: 1. To foster research and practical experience in multi-scale issues and automated map generalisation and to form a network and focal point for researchers and practitioners in this domain. 2. To foster and maintain a liaison with related commissions and working groups within the ICA as well as in related national and international organisations (e.g. ISPRS, IGU, EuroSDR), including: identification of contact persons timely mutual updating on planned activities organisation of joint conference sessions and/or workshops 1
3. To maintain a World Wide Web site for electronic dissemination of research on multiscale issues and map generalisation, including : a membership database a bibliographic database examples of research projects and test data links to related web sites 4. To organise sessions and meetings for exploring the issues named above, including : workshops held every two years in conjunction with international cartographic conferences special sessions and/or panel sessions at international cartographic conferences, in collaboration with local organisers 5. To produce publications for dissemination of the above efforts, including one special issue of a peer-reviewed scientific journal or a book every two years. Prof. Dr. Manfred Buchroithner Vice President National Delegate to ICA 2
Faculty of Environmental Sciences Institute of Cartography Professorship for Cartographic Communication Technische Universität Dresden, 01062 Dresden Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dirk Burghardt Telefon: 0351 463-36200 od. 34809 Telefax: 0351 463-37028 E-Mail: dirk.burghardt@tu-dresden.de Internet: http://kartographie.geo.tu-dresden.de Dresden, 05 February 2015 Activities and structure of ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation, In the past years 4 years our commission has carried out several international workshops: 30 June to 1 July 2011-14 th ICA Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple Representation - jointly organised with ISPRS Commission II/2 Working group on Multiscale Representation of Spatial Data (Paris) 2 July 2011 Tutorial for automated generalization (Paris) 13 to 14 September, 2012-15 th ICA Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple Representation jointly organised with EuroSDR Commission on Data Specifications (Istanbul) 21 to 22 March, 2013 - NMA Symposium 2013 co-organised with the EuroSDR Commission on Data Specifications, on the topic Designing MRDB and multiscale DCMs: sharing experience between governmental mapping agencies (Barcelona) 23 to 24 August, 2013-16 th ICA Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple Representation - jointly organised with the ICA Commission on Map production and Geo-Business (Dresden) 23 September, 2014-17 th ICA Workshop on Generalisation and Multiple Representation (Vienna) In the past period 45 commission members worked intensively on a generalisation book published through Springer with the title Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World Methodologies and Applications of Map Generalisation. Publishing date: 28 February 2014. The book contains 12 chapters, with 27 case studies as well as seven technical oriented subsections from Postadresse (Briefe) TU Dresden 01062 Dresden Postadresse (Pakete u.ä.) TU Dresden Helmholtzstraße 10 01069 Dresden Besucheradresse Sekretariat: Hülsse-Bau, Helmholtzstraße 10, Zi. W 136 Zufahrt Hülsse-Bau, Helmholtzstr. 10 Internet http://tu-dresden.de
the most active NMA s to illustrate the usage of automated generalisation in map production Future work plan: The goal for the next period is to work towards a common Generalisation Ontology. A common Generalisation Ontology would support the exchange of generalisation functionalities between systems/web services and probably help to match user requirements with on-demand mapping products. A kickoff meeting is planned to be held in Paris, 26 to 27 March 2015. Further activities refer to the organisation of two common workshop with ISPRS working group WGII/2 (Multi n-dimensional Spatial Data Representations, Data Structures and Algorithms): they will join the ICA Generalisation and Multiple Representation Workshop in Rio de Janeiro, and we will support the organisation of a workshop at the next ISPRS congress (2016) on a theme linked to the representation of spatial data and spatial ontologies. A further aim of the commission is the publication of special issue in 2016 related to current research in automated generalisation, maybe on the topic of Generalisation Ontologies or Generalisation of multi source / user generated content within the new International Journal of Cartography (IJC). The commission plans to continue working under Dirk Burghardt as Chair and Cecile Duchene as Vice-Chair. As Cecile will finish her habilitation thesis this year, she will not participate at the ICA workshop in Rio. William Mackaness will further support the commission without being officially nominated as Vice-Chair. We will start to search for new commission chairs in two years to involve them into the workshop organisation for Washington in 2017 and to prepare a smooth transition of the commission administration. Prof. Dirk Burghardt 2
Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dirk Burghardt Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dirk Burghardt Institute of Cartography Dresden University of Technology Helmholzstr. 10 D-01062 Dresden, Deutschland Tel.: +49-351-463-36200 Fax: +49-351-463-37028 e-mail: dirk.burghardt@tu-dresden.de Birth date and place Nationality Family February 16, 1969, Chemnitz, Germany German married, 3 children Dirk Burghardt is a full professor in the Cartographic Institute at Dresden University of Technology since 2009. He holds a PhD degree in GIScience from Dresden University of Technology and a Habilitation degree in GIScience from the University of Zurich. From 1998-2001 he worked as a software engineer and product manager in a map production company in Switzerland. Between 2002 and 2008 he was Lecturer in the GIS Division at the University of Zurich (CH). Prof. Burghardt is the chair of the ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation of the International Cartographic Association since 2011. His main research interests include automated generalisation and map production, geographic information retrieval, interactive cartographic presentations, geovisual analytics and cartographic communication. Education 1995 Diploma (Master of Science), TU Dresden 2000 PhD, Automated cartographic displacement with energy minimization, TU Dresden 2008 Habilitation, Automated generalisation in digital and mobile cartography, University of Zurich Professional career 1989-1995 Study of physics, TU Dresden 1995-2000 Research assistant, Department of Geosciences, TU Dresden 2000-2001 Software-engineer (50%), Maptech AG, Luzern, Switzerland 2002-2009 Lecturer GIS Division, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Switzerland 2005-2006 Deputyship of chair, Department of Cartography and Geodesy, University of Bonn Since 2009 Professorship on Cartographic Communication, Institute of Cartography, TU Dresden Books edited Burghardt, D.; Duchene, C. and Mackaness, W. (Eds.). Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World - Methodologies and Applications of Map Generalisation. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer. (2014) Buchroithner, Manfred; Prechtel, Nikolas; Burghardt, Dirk (Eds.). Cartography from Pole to Pole. Selected Contributions to the XXVIth International Conference of the ICA, Dresden. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, Springer. (2013)
Selected papers Hahman, S.; Purves, R. and Burghardt, D. (2014). Twitter location (sometimes) matters: Exploring the spatial relationship between georeferenced Tweets and feature classes. Journal of Spatial Information Science, 9:1-36. Hauthal, E. and Burghardt, D. (2014). Mapping Space-Related Emotions out of User-Generated Photo Metadata Considering Grammatical Issues. The Cartographic Journal. Cetinkaya, S.; Basaraner, M. and Burghardt, D. (2014). Proximity-Based Grouping of Buildings in Urban Blocks: A Comparison of Four Algorithms. Geocarto International. Pippig, K.; Burghardt, D. and Prechtel, N. (2013). Semantic similarity analysis of user generated content for theme-based route planning. Journal of Location Based Services, 7(4): 223-245. Bereuter, P.; Weibel, R. and Burghardt, D. (2013). Content zooming and information exploration for mobile maps. International Journal of Geomatics and Spatial Analysis, 23(3-4):295-321. Hahmann, S. and Burghardt, D. (2013). How much information is geospatially referenced? Networks and cognition. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 27(6): 1171-1189. Burghardt, D.; Petzold, I. and Bobzien, M. (2010). Relation Modelling within Multiple Representation Databases and Generalisation Services. The Cartographic Journal, 47(3): 238-249. Burghardt, D. and Schmid, S. (2009). Constraint-based evaluation of automated and manual generalised topographic maps. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. 1st ICA Symposium on Cartography in Central and Eastern Europe. Springer-Verlag, pp. 147-162. Lüscher, P.; Weibel, R. and Burghardt, D. (2009). Integrating ontological modelling and Bayesian inference for pattern classification in topographic vector data. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 33(5), pp. 363-374. Research projects 2001-2005 EU-Project WebPark: Geographically relevant information for mobile users in protected areas (scientist) 2004-2007 SNF-Project DEGEN: Data Enrichment for automated map GENeralization (co-applicant) 2004-2005 KTI-Project DRIVE: Derivation of vector models (applicant and project leader) 2005-2007 KTI-Project WebGen: Web generalisation services for online mapping (applicant and project leader) 2006-2009 EuroSDR- Research on state-of-the-art of generalisation (scientist) Project 2006-2009 COST-Project ORUS: Providing Enriched Spatial Data Ontology-driven Recognition of Urban Structures from Spatial Databases (co-applicant) 2008-2011 SNF-Project GenW2: Generalization for Portrayal in Web and Wireless Mapping (co-applicant) 2011-2013 DFG-Project MApps: Cartographic communication of user generated content with mobile maps (applicant and project leader) 2014-2017 DFG-Project WPS-PolyGen: Web processing services for automated generalisation of isolated polygon groups (applicant and project leader) Panels Chair of ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple Representation (since 2011) Editorial board member of The Cartographic Journal