01810nas a2200289 4500008004100000245006000041210005700101260001300158300001200171490000900183520099400192653001601186653002901202653000801231100001801239700002001257700002401277700002201301700002101323700002001344700002101364700001901385700002401404700001901428700002301447856005001470 2013 eng d00aAn Ontology Design Pattern for Cartographic Map Scaling0 aOntology Design Pattern for Cartographic Map Scaling bSpringer a76–930 v78823 a
The concepts of scale is at the core of cartographic abstraction and mapping. It defines which geographic phenomena should be displayed, which type of geometry and map symbol to use, which measures can be taken, as well as the degree to which features need to be exaggerated or spatially displaced. In this work, we present an ontology design pattern for map scaling using the Web Ontology Language (OWL) within a particular extension of the OWL RL profile. We explain how it can be used to describe scaling applications, to reason over scale levels, and geometric representations. We propose an axiomatization that allows us to impose meaningful constraints on the pattern, and, thus, to go beyond simple surface semantics. Interestingly, this includes several functional constraints currently not expressible in any of the OWL profiles. We show that for this specific scenario, the addition of such constraints does not increase the reasoning complexity which remains tractable.
10aMap Scaling10aOntology Design Patterns10aOWL1 aCarral, David1 aScheider, Simon1 aJanowicz, Krzysztof1 aVardeman, Charles1 aKrisnadhi, Adila1 aHitzler, Pascal1 aCimiano, Philipp1 aCorcho, Óscar1 aPresutti, Valentina1 aHollink, Laura1 aRudolph, Sebastian uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38288-8_6