2025 March - 39 articles
As cities continuously expand and with the advancement of regional integration, the flows of people, goods, and information have spread beyond their original administrative borders. The top-down administrative borders and bottom-up functional borders...
The advancement of computational tools for cartometric analysis has opened new avenues for the identification and understanding of stemmatic relationships between historical maps through the analysis of their planimetric distortions. The 19th-century...
Rapid urbanization has accelerated the transformation of community dynamics, highlighting the critical need to understand the interplay between subjective perceptions and objective built environments in shaping life satisfaction for sustainable urban...
Historic and cultural scenic spots are concentrated spaces that hold historic and cultural value for a city, and their streets form the foundation of their scenery. Therefore, the street quality of historic and cultural scenic spots plays an importan...
Mobile map landmark symbols are pivotal in conveying spatial semantics and enhancing users’ perception of digital maps. This study employs a three-factor hybrid experimental design to investigate the effects of different landmark symbol types a...
In producing English-Chinese bilingual maps, it is usually necessary to translate English place names into Chinese. However, pipeline-based methods for translating place names splits the place name translation task into multiple sub-tasks, carries th...
This study explores a methodology for assessing territorial innovation potential using OpenStreetMap (OSM) data and geoinformation technologies. Traditional assessment methods often rely on aggregated statistical data, which provide a generalized vie...
Virtual geographic environments long simulated real-world scenarios in urban planning, monument preservation, city infrastructure management, education, and entertainment. Their web-based visualisation and distribution made these environments widely...
This research paper examines how to assess potential locations for wind turbines and photovoltaic modules by combining Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM). These potential locations depend on the current le...
Simplifying building contours involves reducing data volume while preserving the continuity, accuracy, and essential characteristics of building shapes. This presents significant challenges for sequence representation and generation. Traditional meth...
An increasing trend towards the installation of photovoltaic (PV) solar energy generation capacity is driven by several factors including the desire for greater energy independence and, especially, the desire to decarbonize industrial economies. Whil...
Hexahedral projections—mapping the Earth’s surface onto the faces of a circumscribed cube—have drawn scientific interest for over half a century. During this time, numerous projections with diverse characteristics have been develope...
Intercity railways are key transportation infrastructures in the interconnection of urban agglomerations. Their stations are usually distributed based on densely populated and economically active areas, and they also play roles as regional network no...
This study examines the application of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in tourism planning and sustainable destination management, using Gelnica, Slovakia, as a case study. The research highlights a key challenge—the absence of systematic...
Factors related to catering distribution are typically characterized by local changes, but few studies have quantitatively investigated the inherent spatial nonstationarity correlations. In this study, a multiscale geographically weighted regression...
Current ecological value assessment models predominantly emphasize the potential value of ecological resources, neglecting the crucial aspect of value realization processes. Analyzing the value of ecological resources from the perspective of ecologic...
Fever visit management (FVM) played a critical role in reducing the risk of local outbreaks caused by positive cases during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic under the dynamic zero-COVID-19 policy. Fever clinics were established to sat...
The ongoing debate over whether polycentric urban structures reduce commuting times has yielded conflicting conclusions, highlighting the need for empirical findings in diverse urban contexts and analyses that consider a range of influencing factors....
The transition to renewable energy is crucial for combating climate change but faces challenges like local socio-environmental impacts and territorial conflicts. Scientific research on mapping renewable energy suitability areas and identifying socio-...
An important aspect of a well-designed urban form is supporting active school travel by adolescents, as it has positive effects on physical activity, healthy lifestyles, and reducing vehicle-related carbon emissions. To achieve this, it is necessary...
With the rapid development of geographic information technology, the expression of topographical spatial semantic relationships has become a research hotspot in the field of intelligent geographic information systems. Geographical spatial semantic re...
Bus networks are a crucial support for urban commuting. By studying the evolutionary characteristics of bus networks, we can uncover their development patterns, coverage efficiency, and changes in regional balance, providing a scientific basis for su...
The Traveling Salesman Problem (TSP) is a classical discrete combinatorial optimization problem that is widely applied in various domains, including robotics, transportation, networking, etc. Although existing studies have provided extensive discussi...
Evacuation routing in wildland areas is an important aspect during various emergencies, including fire incidents. A review of the literature found a lack of research on vector routing systems for evacuations from wildland areas. This article aims to...
Parallel computing techniques have been adopted in geospatial cellular automata (CA) models to improve computational efficiency, enabling large-scale complex simulations of land use and land cover (LULC) changes at fine scales. However, the spatial d...
The frequent occurrence of flooding disasters threatens urban public safety and sustainable development, making enhancing urban ecological resilience crucial for flood prevention and disaster reduction. This study, focusing on the Yangtze River Delta...
As web maps are now extensively used by billions of users, the energy consumption of these maps is not marginal anymore. Green cartography seeks to reduce the energy consumption of maps to promote more sustainable digital tools. To reduce energy cons...
This paper aims at addressing sustainability concerns in vulnerable insular territories. Such concerns are due to the rising overtourism phenomenon that affects islands at a rapidly escalating pace and renders sustainable local development of these o...
Asthma prevalence in large urban areas of developing countries is a significant public health concern, with increased rates driven by various socioeconomic and environmental factors. This study aims to predict asthma risk in Tehran, a major urban cen...
New quality productivity in agriculture and rural areas serves as a critical foundation for addressing the development needs of the times, advancing the comprehensive revitalization of rural regions, and overcoming the urban–rural dual structur...
To address the challenges in current research on spatial clustering algorithms for buildings in topographic maps—namely, their limited ability to effectively accommodate diverse application scenarios, including dense and regular urban environme...
At present, more than 200 cities in the world have developed metro systems. Under the agglomeration effect of traffic nodes, rapid population agglomeration and land development and utilization have formed around metro stations in cities. However, the...
Rooftop photovoltaics (RPVs) are crucial in addressing energy shortages and environmental concerns caused by fossil fuel combustion. To promote the optimal deployment of RPVs in Tianjin, a region with abundant solar resources and dense buildings, thi...
The automation of extracting targeted decision-support information is a key task for achieving intelligent agricultural management. Essentially, this involves structurally representing agricultural operations based on knowledge, unified modeling and...
Climate change has global consequences, and Switzerland is no exception. The communication of climate change poses various challenges, and maps are often part of this process. This work presents three maps illustrating the impacts of climate change,...
A region’s ability to maintain biodiversity and the health of its ecosystems depends heavily on the quality of its habitat. The Integrated Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Trade-offs (InVEST) model was utilized in this investigation, in conj...
Cultural heritage serves as a repository of a place’s history and identity, integral to its landscape and central to all three sustainability goals. However, managing and protecting cultural heritage through regulatory planning often proves ina...
This article presents social research, conducted through interviews with experts involved in land administration in Colombia, on the possibility of using the Fit-For-Purpose methodology, combined with indirect methods, to accelerate the capture of ca...
Geographical named entity matching, a crucial step in address encoding, aims to enhance address resolution accuracy through the precise identification and linkage of geographical named entity data. However, existing approaches tend to ignore the spat...
