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Investigation and Cogitation Upon Geospatial Knowledge Map WANG Fuqiang1, 2, WANG Guangxia1, LIU Fang1, 3 1. Institute of Surveying and Mapping, Information Engineering University, Zhengzhou, China, 450052 2. 78138 Troops, Chengdu, China, 610036 3. 73603 Troops, Nanjing, China, 210049 [email protected] Abstract: Knowledge map is an important management tool. With rise of VGI and Geo-Wiki technology, smart mapping becomes research hotspot of cartography. The key to realize smart mapping includes some theoretic and technologic problems such as acquiring, managing, visualization, communication and service of geospatial knowledge etc. The article advances the concept of geospatial knowledge map based on idea of knowledge map. It is a kind of customizable, interactive, user complete participant smart web services. At last, the article depicts the system framework of geospatial knowledge map and points out several key problems need to be studied in the future. Keywords: knowledge map, geospatial knowledge map, geospatial knowledge, smart network 1 Introduction With rapid development of Internet of things and sensors, there will be 7tril sensors to serve for 7 billion people up to 2017[1]. It is more promptly to acquire the information. The resources and forms of information are more multivariant. The cartographers used to be puzzled by data issues, by now this question has been settled. Cartography work is excursing from “data collection” to “data processing”. The diversified brainpower computing techniques such as cloud computing, space-time data mine can rapidly analysis and process the geodata and information. This has notably advanced the peoples’ information processing capability, and afforded techniques support to settle discomfiture of “information deluge but poor knowledge”. With the development of theory and technology of knowledge visualization, it is likely to use varied visualization mode to express geospatial knowledge, and to actualize geospatial knowledge communion and transfer between different fields and people. It gradually become study hotspot and foreland domain of cartography that how to strength the geospatial knowledge’s organize, transfer and visualization expression, so as to improve communion and reuse of geospatial knowledge between different fields, systems and people. Taxology, ontology and knowledge map have been get more and more attention. In this context knowledge map, as an effective knowledge manage tool, gradually comes into the eyeshot of cartographer. Researches and appliance of knowledge map in geospatial field have acquired a series of progresses. 2 The Basic Thought and Conception of the Knowledge Map The thought of knowledge map originates from a series of articles, its main title as “The Foundation of Information Science”, which are published by B. C. Brookes. He is a famous information science expert from U.K. Invoking the K. R. Popper‘s “the world3 theory”, Brooks think over carefully the theory and method of the information science from four perspectives: philosophical aspects, the reflection of class and entity, the objective map and the subjective landscape, the changing paradigm. Then he suggests the “cognitive map”, which is the core concept of Brookes information science. The information science is not only represent the relations among documents, it must deeply analyze the logic contents in documents, find the knowledge nodes and their conjunctions which affect the human creativities and considerations. Then depict intuitively them as map to represent the knowledge’s organic structures. Brooks thinks that the human knowledge can be depicted as a study cognitive map, which contains cell concept nodes. On the cognitive map, the nodes are the human knowledge. All the correlative nodes 83 construct the Popper’s word 3. It is the result of all the human psychic activity and is different from the natural world and the Spiritual World. The conceptual model of knowledge map is shown in Fig1. Fig1. The Conceptual Model of knowledge map At present knowledge map hasn’t a general definition yet. Many experts define it from diverse perspectives. To sum up, the following are some main opinions. The “Distribution Map” opinion from the specific manifestation, which thinks the knowledge map as the geographical distribution map of knowledge[2]. The “Relationship” opinion from its contents which considers that the knowledge map is not only representing the information but also representing the conjunctions among them[3]. From the function perspective, the “Navigation” [4][5] “Tool” [6]opinion holds that it is an effective knowledge management tools: it manages all the organization knowledge(explicit knowledge and tacit knowledge)and gives the advantage of the efficiently knowledge acquisition and share for people. The “Management Technology” opinion from the constructive technology regards it as a new kind of knowledge management technology that combined knowledge base management system technology and Internet technology. it is the complex of the enterprise knowledge catalogue and the conjunctions among knowledge nodes by modern information technology [7]. In summary, we can conclude that: It only represents the knowledge source, but doesn’t show the specific content of knowledge; It reveals the explicit knowledge and the tacit knowledge within organization, not only visually displays the knowledge source but also shows the conjunction among knowledge; People usually know the knowledge gaps within organization and finds the new knowledge by constructing the knowledge map. ③ 3 ② ① The Domestic and International Researches of Knowledge Map in Geospatial Field With the popularization of the Internet and database technology, appliance demands are improved. This changes the format and technology of knowledge map too. From simple hyperlink used in world wide web, knowledge map develops into format with knowledge’s communion and reuse in organize. From early Internet and multimedia technology run to ontology, semantic web to construct knowledge map, the knowledge map are abroad used in more and more fields which involve knowledge management, pedagogics, informatics, library science etc. Researches in these fields bring forward new ideas to geospatial knowledge’s organization and visual expression. In the geospatial domain, the researchers do considerable related work. In fact, the rudiment of knowledge map: American Express Compary firstly used knowledge map, which was an American geographic map full of knowledge resources. The early knowledge map is a map that expresses 84 technology information or geographical distribution map of knowledge resources. The domestic and international academics do a lot of work on the geographic knowledge characters. Russia academic A. N. Antipov thinks the geographic knowledge quality have related to new technology of obtaining, processing, generalization and express of geoinformation, and need sustaining investigate of theory and technique[9]. The English academic Antony Galton studies express of space-time knowledge in geospatial field from AI point of view[10]. He considers the express of space-time knowledge should think over continuity, cause and effect and identity. From computer information science, Prof Ma Ainai thinks until the geographic knowledge had been formalized and changed into data when they could be processed [11]. He believes geoinformation formalization are bottleneck question in a geo-expert system. Prof Liu Yu studies the express of text spatial information [12]. He thinks text spatial information based on general toponym organization accord with people’s expression of geospatial knowledge much more. On aspect of geo-knowledge visualize, Wang Zuocheng researches map forms of spatial knowledge from analysis types of knowledge from spatial data mining[13]. Prof Ai Tinghua put forward some techniques of visualization according with cognitive characters, such as route net truss map oriented route cognitive expression, area topological map of subject attributes spatial orientation information cognitive expression and cyber internet map of virtual space navigation cognition etc[14]. About knowledge map’s basic concept, American connect the advices, information and repository with exact, numeric globe model and become powerful function and intuitionistic knowledge map. England martial mapping and surveying bureau bring a complete, integrated and interrelated geography frame to help users improve operations. The frame is based on the first version of OS MasterMap, and integrated with nine subjects’ relief layers. Gong Jianhua defines geographic knowledge map from knowledge visualize point of view[15]. They think geographic knowledge map is an important expression format of geographic knowledge, and is a cognitive and abstract map about geographic questions, geo-spatial-time distribution and geographic elements’ correlation. Based on geosciences map and geoinformation map, Xujun advances the concept of geosciences knowledge map, which could revel spatial distribution of geographic elements and exposure connotative rules[16]. The geosciences knowledge map is not only an instrument for knowledge expression and data mining, but also is a kind of spatial cognitive format and result. In summary, knowledge map has broad appliance prospects for information mutual operation, knowledge comprehension, knowledge management. In the field of cartography, Internet of things, web2.0, VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) and geo-wiki has enjoyed popular support. The traditional map with the aim of transferring geospatial information doesn’t satisfy people’s intelligent, individuation and convenience require. The kind of map service from “one map for all use” changed into service on demand and adaptive network service. The cartographers try to afford initiative service, convenient service and communicative service of geospatial knowledge from knowledge level. Geospatial knowledge map stresses geospatial knowledge’s acquiring, fusing, organizing, expressing and serving. It affords an effective approach to resolve the communication and share of geospatial knowledge between different people in the different fields, and then aid in decision making. 4 The Concept and the System Frame of Geospatial Knowledge Map To construct knowledge need systemically work over knowledge in the field, find their relationship according to knowledge’s identity and use proper visual ways to express them. In the cartography domain we need not only geospatial knowledge but also the cognition and knowledge background of users for geospatial knowledge’s communication and share in different fields. In addition, we need to set up not only the conjunction of inner knowledge nodes but also their relations. Therefore the article brings forward the concept of geospatial knowledge map based fundamental ideas of knowledge map. The concept of geospatial knowledge map is premise on taking the cognition and knowledge background of users into account. The geospatial knowledge map can effectively fuse, efficiently 85 associate the geospatial knowledge acquiring from spatial data base, spatial data warehouse, images of remote sensing and other resources of geoinformation with the field knowledge of users. And it adopts diversiform expressions of knowledge and affords the interactive and customizable individual active services. So users can acquire the geospatial knowledge rapidly and exactly, therefore they can rebuilt and apply these knowledge to aid them in space actions decision making. Comparing with the traditional cartography, users participate in all course of making geospatial knowledge map. With regard to acquiring elements of map, the geospatial knowledge map stresses deep processing of map data oriented users’ demand. It uses GIS analysis, spatial data mining and knowledge finding, subject information distilling, search engines and techniques of obtain knowledge etc to capture geospatial knowledge that includes forms of image, graph, rule, formula and concept. With regard to elements’ relations, the geospatial knowledge map constructs not only the relations of geographic elements, but the conjunctions in species, entities, and attributes of entities and the association between geospatial knowledge and field knowledge of users. With regard to map products, the geospatial knowledge map changes map format from “one map for all use” paper map or electronic map into “each takes what he needs, each offers as far as he knows” adaptive network map service. The frame of geospatial knowledge map is depicted in figure2. Fig 2 The System Framework of Geospatial Knowledge Map In this frame, data layer affords data support for knowledge layer acquiring all sorts of geospatial knowledge. The layer correlates with knowledge cells of geospatial knowledge map in service layer. This will help users rapidly obtain geospatial information and knowledge that they need and make the users’ geographic decision with qualitative and quantitative analysis. This layer mainly includes pretreatment, storage, structure, index of multirecourse heterogeneous data and fast retrieval technology. Knowledge layer processes data deeply on the knowledge dimension. The knowledge layer affords basic knowledge cells and the conjunctions of them for service layer which is the intermediate link between data and service. The layer involves acquiring geospatial knowledge and users’ field knowledge, the gradation of these knowledge, the fusion and management of geographic knowledge and user field knowledge, distillation and conjunction of knowledge cell. The layer is the key to construct geospatial knowledge map in service layer. The service layer is the core of geospatial knowledge map. It associates with not only the knowledge cell in knowledge layer but also the data in data layer. This layer can customize visual, smart network map service that is coincident with users’ cognitive characters according to users’ knowledge demands and knowledge backgrounds. The layer includes expression of kinds of data and knowledge, users knowledge demand model, qualitative knowledge deducing, and the 86 frame of knowledge push service actively. 5 Conclusion More and more scholars in geospatial field are interested in the characters, organization, fusion, integration, visualization of geospatial knowledge, and have undertaken some foundational research. The article advances the concept of geospatial knowledge map based on idea of knowledge map and its system framework. This is a new way of smart cartography. Now geospatial knowledge map is a new conception, there is no mature theoretical and technical basis. To construct the user-customizable, interactive, individual and active map web services with which “each takes what he needs, each offers as far as he knows”, geospatial knowledge map should focus on these theory and technology problems: To discuss and constitute the foundational theory system on geospatial knowledge map. The core of geospatial knowledge map is to solve the problem that geospatial knowledge is transferred, shared and reused among diverse user groups. People need to solve the theory problems such as multiple spatial data mining and knowledge discover theory, the fusion of geospatial knowledge and user domain knowledge theory, geospatial knowledge transfer theory and geospatial knowledge visual representation theory. To Research on the geospatial data-information-knowledge transformation mechanism, build the conjunction relationships among knowledge cells, construct the systematic and scientific geospatial knowledge network. Geospatial knowledge nodes and their conjunction relationships are the essential elements of geospatial knowledge map. The proper system of geospatial knowledge is the precondition and foundation of on-demand cartography according to diverse user groups. To study the visual representation mechanisms of different types of geospatial knowledge, build the mapping relationships between the geospatial knowledge types and its visual representation methods. People only adopt the proper representation methods according to the knowledge types and user cognition habit, thus, users can accurately understand, grasp and apply the geospatial knowledge to solve their spatial problems. To construct the user model and user knowledge demand model. User knowledge demand model decides the integrant spatial data of geospatial knowledge map. Different types of data decide the diverse knowledge acquisition techniques. User model constructed according to the knowledge contexts and cognition habits is correlative with the knowledge representation methods. To realize the smart web services of geospatial knowledge based on web 2.0. The Essential Connotation of geospatial knowledge map is a customized, interactive, individual and active map web services. 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