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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, Volume 14, Issue 1

2025 January - 39 articles

Cover Story: Web map applications are widely used, yet their cartographic design often receives limited attention. This article evaluates eight popular web map applications (Mapy.cz, OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Bing Maps, HERE Maps, MapQuest, ViaMichelin, and Locus Map) based on six cartographic aspects (Map Key, Map Scale, Map Layout, Navigation Elements, Labels, and Analytical Tools). By identifying inconsistencies in feature representation, such as the absence of certain symbols and variability in others, this study recommends unifying cartographic principles and further user testing to optimize the user interface and experience of web map applications. An interesting finding is the absence of cartographic symbols and labels of some elements in some applications. View this paper
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Articles (39)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,852 Views
23 Pages

Understanding intra-urban travel patterns through quantitative analysis is crucial for effective urban planning and transportation management. In previous studies, a range of distribution functions were modeled to lay the groundwork for human mobilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,876 Views
36 Pages

Mapping the Dream: Designing Optimal E-Bike Routes in Valparaíso, Chile, Using a Multicriteria Analysis and an Experimental Study

  • Vicente Aprigliano,
  • Catalina Toro,
  • Gonzalo Rojas,
  • Iván Bastías,
  • Marcus Cardoso,
  • Tálita Santos,
  • Marcelino Aurélio Vieira da Silva,
  • Emilio Bustos,
  • Ualison Rébula de Oliveira and
  • Sebastian Seriani

The city of Valparaíso, Chile, faces significant mobility challenges due to its steep slopes, complex urban infrastructure, and socioeconomic conditions. In this direction, this study explores the potential promotion of E-bike uses by identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,702 Views
28 Pages

The Qin-Mang River Basin is an important biodiversity conservation area in the Yellow River Basin. Studying the spatiotemporal changes in its ecosystem services (ESs) and the trade-offs and synergies (TOSs) between them is crucial for regional ecolog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,661 Views
25 Pages

Concept, Framework, and Data Model for Geographical Soundscapes

  • Xiu Lu,
  • Guannan Li,
  • Xiaoqing Song,
  • Liangchen Zhou and
  • Guonian Lv

Existing concepts and frameworks of soundscapes focus on the analysis and description of the sound source but do not explore geographical environment parameters and receiver characteristics in the geographical scene. Existing soundscape data models i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,026 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient Tourism Path Approach Based on Improved Ant Colony Optimization in Hilly Areas

  • Mohamed A. Damos,
  • Wenbo Xu,
  • Jun Zhu,
  • Ali Ahmed and
  • Abdolraheem Khader

The expansion of the tourism industry has led to the development of various methods to find optimal tourism paths. However, planning tourism paths in hilly areas remains complex and has specific challenges. Different algorithms have been used to plan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,603 Views
24 Pages

Cartographic design is fundamental to effective mapmaking, requiring adherence to principles such as visual hierarchy, symbolization, and color theory to convey spatial information accurately and intuitively, while Artificial Intelligence (AI) and La...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,050 Views
31 Pages

Rapid urban expansion and chaotic urban land-use patterns cause many socio-economic and environmental issues, e.g., traffic congestion and urban heat islands; thus, scientific planning considering land-use trade-offs and layout optimization is highly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,764 Views
25 Pages

The United States identifies, monitors, and defends a vast network of controlled airspaces surrounding its own and allied territories. These controlled airspaces include civilian aviation classes (A through G), drone flying regions, and special use (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,209 Views
14 Pages

Maritime accidents frequently occur in the Philippine archipelagic waters, often resulting in significant loss of life. These incidents highlight the urgent need for improvements in the country’s maritime safety systems. By utilising accident d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,287 Views
28 Pages

Synergy of Remote Sensing and Geospatial Technologies to Advance Sustainable Development Goals for Future Coastal Urbanization and Environmental Challenges in a Riverine Megacity

  • Minza Mumtaz,
  • Syed Humayoun Jahanzaib,
  • Waqar Hussain,
  • Sadia Khan,
  • Youssef M. Youssef,
  • Saleh Qaysi,
  • Abdalla Abdelnabi,
  • Nassir Alarifi and
  • Mahmoud E. Abd-Elmaboud

Riverine coastal megacities, particularly in semi-arid South Asian regions, face escalating environmental challenges due to rapid urbanization and climate change. While previous studies have examined urban growth patterns or environmental impacts ind...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,437 Views
17 Pages

Quantification of Soil–Water Erosion Using the RUSLE Method in the Mékrou Watershed (Middle Niger River)

  • Rachid Abdourahamane Attoubounou,
  • Hamidou Diawara,
  • Ralf Ludwig and
  • Julien Adounkpe

Despite nearly a century of research on water-related issues, water erosion remains one of the greatest threats to soil health and soil ecosystem services around the world. Yet, to date, data on water erosion needed to develop mitigation strategies a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,614 Views
29 Pages

Enhancing Accessibility in Public Spaces: A Computational Study of Hatirjheel Lakefront Using Space Syntax

  • Sharif Tousif Hossain,
  • Baqer Al-Ramadan,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Hamad Ahmed Altuwaijri

Public spaces are vital for urban living, contributing to the environmental, social, and economic aspects of city life. Hatirjheel Lakefront, a newly developed recreational area in Dhaka, offers significant potential for enhancing accessibility and c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,222 Views
21 Pages

Indoor location-based services and applications need to obtain information about the indoor spatial layouts and topological relationships of indoor spaces. The 3D city modeling data standard CityGML describes the indoor geometric and semantic informa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,855 Views
20 Pages

POI Data Fusion Method Based on Multi-Feature Matching and Optimization

  • Yue Wang,
  • Cailin Li,
  • Hongjun Zhang,
  • Baoyun Guo,
  • Xianlong Wei and
  • Zhao Hai

The key to geospatial data integration lies in identifying corresponding objects from different sources. Aiming at the problem of the low matching accuracy of geospatial entities under a single feature attribute, a geospatial entity matching method b...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,107 Views
21 Pages

A New Construction Method for Rectangular Cartograms

  • Lina Wang,
  • Haoxun Yuan,
  • Xiang Li,
  • Pengfei Lu and
  • Yaru Li

The rectangular cartogram is a geospatial visualization method that blends the characteristics of maps and charts. By simplifying geographic regions into rectangles and using the area of each rectangle to represent statistical data, it enables effici...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,938 Views
23 Pages

Revealing the City Influence and Its Pattern Using Web Search Data: A New Perspective Through Attention Flow

  • Xiaoxiao Wang,
  • Haiping Zhang,
  • Zitong Li,
  • Xin Yang,
  • Ziyi Qian,
  • Duo Bian and
  • Yongxin Zhao

City influence is a critical topic in regional studies, reflecting how cities draw attention and exert impact in various domains. Understanding city influence is essential for fostering sustainable urban growth. However, existing studies have failed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,117 Views
26 Pages

As a crucial component of urban economic activities, the layout and optimization of urban commercial spaces directly influence the economic prosperity and quality of life of residents. Therefore, comprehensively and accurately characterizing the dist...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,494 Views
22 Pages

Evaluation of Cross-Border Transport Connectivity and Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Latin America

  • Changqi Miao,
  • Yinbao Zhang,
  • Xinjia Zhang,
  • Jianzhong Liu and
  • Shike Zhang

The study of cross-border transport connectivity is significant for the development of regional integration and insight into global patterns. Comprehensive connectivity evaluations are lacking and insufficient attention has been paid to Latin America...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
9,016 Views
21 Pages

This study addresses the prevalent challenges of inefficiency and suboptimal quality in indoor 3D scene generation and rendering by proposing a parameter-tuning strategy for 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS). Through a systematic quantitative analysis of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,321 Views
35 Pages

Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been widely adopted in urban planning to alleviate traffic congestion, urban sprawl, and other problems. The TOD metro station area, as a dynamic and open spatial system, presents typical complex features. To im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,763 Views
36 Pages

Real-scene 3D digital campuses are essential for improving the accuracy and effectiveness of spatial data representation, facilitating informed decision-making for university administrators, optimizing resource management, and enriching user engageme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,553 Views
26 Pages

HGeoKG: A Hierarchical Geographic Knowledge Graph for Geographic Knowledge Reasoning

  • Tailong Li,
  • Renyao Chen,
  • Yilin Duan,
  • Hong Yao,
  • Shengwen Li and
  • Xinchuan Li

The Geographic Knowledge Graph (GeoKG) serves as an effective method for organizing geographic knowledge, playing a crucial role in facilitating semantic interoperability across heterogeneous data sources. However, existing GeoKGs are limited by a la...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,482 Views
17 Pages

In this article we present three instruments: (1) a social vulnerability to extreme heat index to identify the areas of a city (and populations thereof) more vulnerable to extreme heat due to climate change (heat islands); (2) a new overall fragility...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,428 Views
43 Pages

In recent years, shared e-scooters have become increasingly popular as a mode of transportation in urban areas. Shared e-scooters have emerged as a convenient and sustainable transportation option in urban areas, providing users with a flexible and e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,225 Views
20 Pages

Spatial optimization is an integral part of GIS and spatial analysis. It involves making various decisions in space, ranging from the location of public facilities to vehicle routing and political districting. While useful, such problems (especially...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,980 Views
19 Pages

This paper examines the evolution of urban vitality measurement, emphasizing the transformative impact of big data and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Traditionally assessed through direct observations and surveys, urban vitality measurement h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,774 Views
27 Pages

Revealing Land-Use Dynamics on Thermal Environment of Riverine Cities Under Climate Variability Using Remote Sensing and Geospatial Techniques

  • Nazia Iftakhar,
  • Fakhrul Islam,
  • Mohammad Izhar Hussain,
  • Muhammad Nasar Ahmad,
  • Jinwook Lee,
  • Nazir Ur Rehman,
  • Saleh Qaysi,
  • Nassir Alarifi and
  • Youssef M. Youssef

Urbanized riverine cities in southern Asian developing countries face significant challenges in understanding the spatiotemporal thermal impacts of land use/land cover (LULC) changes driven by rapid urbanization and climatic variability. While previo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,631 Views
25 Pages

As monitoring technologies and data collection methodologies advance, landslide disaster data reflects attributes such as diverse sources, heterogeneity, substantial volumes, and stringent real-time requirements. To bolster the data support capabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,085 Views
17 Pages

Temporal-Spatial Traffic Flow Prediction Model Based on Prompt Learning

  • Siteng Cai,
  • Gang Liu,
  • Jing He,
  • Yulun Du,
  • Zhichao Si and
  • Yunhao Jiang

Traffic flow prediction is one of the most important and attractive topics in geographical information science (GIS), traffic management, and logistics. Traffic flows exhibit significant complexity and dynamics, requiring a thorough understanding of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,780 Views
18 Pages

Accurate forecasting of multivariate traffic flow poses formidable challenges, primarily due to the ever-evolving spatio-temporal dynamics and intricate spatial heterogeneity, where the heterogeneity signifies that the correlations among locations ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,499 Views
19 Pages

Although there are many articles dealing with web map applications, they often focus on just one or a few applications. Several articles deal with the technical solution of the applications, but relatively few are focused on the cartographic aspects...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,379 Views
21 Pages

Remote sensing imagery contains rich information about geographical targets, and performing super-resolution (SR) reconstruction on such images requires greater feature representation capabilities. Convolutional neural network (CNN)-based methods exc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,841 Views
26 Pages

Land management strategies play a pivotal role in the sustainable development of a region. Integrating space syntax into the ecological–social perspective to assess habitat services and optimize multi-scenario simulations and evaluations is cru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,305 Views
17 Pages

Extracting Regular Building Footprints Using Projection Histogram Method from UAV-Based 3D Models

  • Yaoyao Ren,
  • Xing Li,
  • Fangyuqing Jin,
  • Chunmei Li,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Erzhu Li and
  • Lianpeng Zhang

Extracting building outlines from 3D models poses significant challenges stemming from the intricate diversity of structures and the complexity of urban scenes. Current techniques heavily rely on human expertise and involve repetitive, labor-intensiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,074 Views
20 Pages

With the continuous advancement of technology for obtaining geographic spatial data, the accumulated volume of such data has been increasing, thus imposing higher demands on the storage, organization, and management of such data. As a new form of dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,664 Views
14 Pages

Marijuana Dispensary Locations and Neighborhood Characteristics in New York City

  • Li Yin,
  • Suiyuan Wang,
  • Kelly L. Patterson,
  • Robert Mark Silverman and
  • Ambreen Rehman-Veal

New York State (NYS) passed the Marijuana Regulation and Taxation Act (MRTA) in March of 2021 to legalize adult-use recreational cannabis that allows for its distribution, retail sale, and on-site consumption in licensed businesses. While the state (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,394 Views
29 Pages

Identifying suitable sites for urban, industrial, and tourist development is important, especially in areas with increasing population and limited land availability. Kharga Oasis, Egypt, stands out as a promising area for such development, which can...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,627 Views
26 Pages

Geographic Information System-Based Framework for Sustainable Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Logistics Operations

  • Jonathan Agoo,
  • Renz Joshua Lanuza,
  • Jonathan Lee,
  • Paul Anthony Rivera,
  • Neil Oliver Velasco,
  • Marielet Guillermo and
  • Arvin Fernando

Dispatching goods is becoming more difficult to manage in the field of logistics due to the high demand for order shipments. This is related to the increasing popularity of the use of e-commerce platforms by consumers, where products are required to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,710 Views
25 Pages

Vector road networks are vital components of intelligent transportation systems and electronic navigation maps. There is a pressing need for efficient and rapid dynamic updates for road network data. In this paper, we propose a series of methods desi...

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