Urban and Regional Data Management UDMS 2009 Annual

Introduction 
A. Krek, M. Rumor, S. Zlatanova & E.M. Fendel

Part I: Three dimensional modeling

Procedural façade textures for 3D city models 
J. Bogdahn & V. Coors

A SWOT analysis on the implementation of Building Information Models within the geospatial environment 
U. Isikdag & S. Zlatanova

Design and development of a visualization tool for 3D geospatial data in CityGML format 
M. Rumor & E. Roccatello

Extruding building footprints to create topologically consistent 3D city models 
H. Ledoux & M. Meijers

Attribute grammar for 3D city models 
J. Schmittwilken, D. Dörschlag & L. Plümer

Developing 3D navigation and 3D buffering tools with geo-DBMS for disaster management 
I.A. Musliman, C. Tet-Khuan, A. Abdul-Rahman & V. Coors

Interoperable location based services for 3D cities on the web using user generated content from OpenStreetMap 
A. Schilling, M. Over, S. Neubauer, P. Neis, G. Walenciak & A. Zipf

Building feature service: Bring rich semantic building information into 3D city model 
H. Wang, A. Hamilton & Y. Song

Part II: Spatial data infrastructures and databases

Complying with the INSPIRE implementation rules—a case study 
P. Liljergren, A. Östman & F. Puigvert

“GeoPortal Network”—more process catalyst than project 
J. Zevenbergen, H. Koerten, F. Welle Donker, J. Bulens, M. Kuyper & M. Jellema

Managing geographical data in the French administration: le Conseil Général 
N. Polombo

Quantifying transaction costs of geoinformation: Experiments in national information structures in Sweden and Germany 
A. Krek

Standards and Spatial Data Infrastructures to help the navigation of blind pedestrian in urban areas 
R. Yaagoubi, G. Edwards & T. Badard

Establishing a sub-national SDI in Bahia state (Brazil)—its limits and possibilities 
G.C. Pereira, C.A. Davis, Jr. & M.C.F. Rocha

N-Tuple property parcel database for South Florida: Development and research potentials 
D.C. Prosperi, C. Chagdes, J.E. Murillo & C.I. Cirloganu

Land market as indicator of spatial development trends: A case of Slovenian rural land market 
A. Lisec & S. Drobne

Modeling spatial constraints in conceptual database design of network applications 
J. Lisboa Filho & S.M. Stempliuc

Are the morphing techniques useful for cartographic generalization? 
D.N. Pantazis, B. Karathanasis, M. Kassoli & Ath. Koukofikis

Road junction generalization in large scale geodatabases 
S. Savino, M. Rumor & I. Lissandron

Part III: Risk and disaster management

Supporting the development of shared situational awareness for civilian crisis management with Geographic Information Science—research plan 
K. Virrantaus, J. Mäkelä & U. Demšar

Cooperation among Dutch municipalities makes geo-information accessible for regional disaster management organizations 
M. Jellema

Information support for collaboration in emergency response 
M.J. Kevany

Building ontologies for disaster management: Seismic risk domain 
B. Murgante, G. Scardaccione & G.L. Casas

Development of a WPS process chaining tool and application in a disaster management use case for urban areas 
B. Stollberg & A. Zipf

Application of spatial data infrastructure and GIS for disaster management
C. Jacobs, A. Riedijk, A. Scotta, P. Brooijmans & H.J. Scholten

Assessing building vulnerability using synergistically remote sensing and civil engineering 
H. Taubenböck, A. Roth, S. Dech, H. Mehl, J.C. Münich, L. Stempniewski & J. Zschau

From mural map to GIS: Mapping urban vulnerability in Bucharest 
S. Rufat

Part IV: Environmental planning, analysis and e-government

The use of GIS in landscape protection plan in Sicily 
F. Martinico & S.D. La Rosa

Milano: Developments in the management of green areas through computerization
N. Cattaneo, F. Di Maria, F. Guzzetti, A. Privitera & P. Viskanic

Understanding environmental data in Greece through national limitations and epistemic communities 
M. Kassoli & D.N. Pantazis

Benchmarking urban development indicators—comparing apples to apples 
S. Fina

An empirical analysis of urban land-use dynamics 
H.S. Hansen

Collaborative e-governance: Describing and pre-calibrating the digital milieu in urban and regional planning 
V. Lanza & D.C. Prosperi

Monitoring and assessment of urban environments using space-borne earth observation data 
T. Esch, S. Dech, A. Roth, M. Schmidt, H. Taubenböck, W. Heldens, M. Thiel, M. Wurm & D. Klein

Ameliorating the spatial resolution of high resolution satellite data for use in urban areas 
K.G. Nikolakopoulos & P.I. Tsombos

Beyond the internet—increasing participation in community events by text messaging 
C. Ellul, H. Rahemtulla & M. Haklay

Part V: Traffic and road monitoring

Survey, rendering and management of Pisa Municipality roads 
G. Caroti & A. Piemonte

A spatio-temporal GIS-based multi agent traffic micro-simulation for identifying the most important accident locations 
M. Khalesian, M.R. Delavar & G.R. Shiran

Commuting, why a door-to-door approach? The situation in Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic 
I. Ivan

An approach for intelligent decision support system for urban traffic monitoring 
A. Ionita, A. Zafiu, M. Dascalu, E. Franti & M. Visan

Biography

Alenka Krek, Massimo Rumor, Sisi Zlatanova, Elfriede M. Fendel