
Vincent Van AltenaDelft University of Technology | TU · Department of Urbanism
Vincent Van Altena
Master of Science (MSc), Bachelor of Theology (BTh)
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January 2016 - April 2016
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The Sustainable Development Goals aim to "leave no one behind," including visually impaired individuals who should have equal access to information. However, the production of tactile maps for the visually impaired has been inhibited by factors such as a lack of data and technology, cartographical challenges, and high production costs. To address t...
This article examines how GIS can be used as a heuristic tool to reconstruct spatial–temporal events from narratives in order to examine whether a scenario is conceivable within the narrative world. The narrative about Paul's escape from Berea (Acts 17:14–15) is used as a case study. Several interpretive issues related to spatial and temporal quest...
As in many countries, in The Netherlands governmental organisations are acquiring 3D city models to support their public tasks. However, this is still being done within individual organisation, resulting in differences in 3D city models within one country and sometimes covering the same area: i.e. differences in data structure, height references us...
This paper presents our contribution to the development of a standardized 3D input data model for solar photovoltaic potential estimation. Presently, different input data and processing steps influence the calculation for estimating the potential of solar energy in the Netherlands. The variety in characteristics of input data and issues with tempor...
Building on a plethora of conjectured emendations for IOϒΔAIAN, this article approaches the issue once again to test the viability of a quantitative tool and to establish the possibility of palaeographical confusion of IOϒΔAIAN with an alternative topo- or demonym. The article starts with an experiment using Greek topo- and demonyms derived from co...
The appearance of Ἰουδαίαν in the table of nations (Acts 2:9–11) has troubled interpreters for centuries. Several scholars have proposed to emendate the text. The argumentations for such conjectures vary in elaboration and support. This article gives a diachronic overview of the conjectured emendations. It concludes with an evaluation of the discus...
Before the interpretation of any text can start, the original wording of the text itself must be critically established. Conventionally, this is done following qualitative criteria. This article, however, explores the application of spatial analyses to New Testament textual criticism by demonstrating how the Levenshtein edit distance could be adapt...
3D environments allow advanced spatial navigation and visualization, but have traditionally provided limited support for performing non-spatial data analysis operations like filtering, joining, and integrating data on-the-fly. Linked Open Data provides advanced support for performing filters and joins over datasets that can be dynamically combined...
This article explores, via three case studies, how spatio-temporal analysis can advance New Testament text interpretation. Acts 2, verse 9 to 11 is the text of study. Case study 1 applies network analysis to data representing the Roman road network constrained by parameters valid for ancient times. This analysis provided new information on the back...
This paper summarizes the research conducted to improve the automatic generalization of man-made water networks for topographic maps by context-dependent pruning (Altena, 2014). The aim of this study was to improve existing thinning methods for map generalization by accounting for landscape types. The results show that it is possible to improve the...
Producing maps and geo-data at different scales is traditionally one of the main tasks of National (and regional) Mapping Agencies
(NMAs). The derivation of low-scale maps (i.e. with less detail) from large-scale maps (with more detail), i.e. generalisation, used to
be a manual task of cartographers. With the need for more up-to-date data as well a...
Producing maps and geo-data at different scales is traditionally one of the main tasks of National (and regional) Mapping Agencies (NMAs). The derivation of low-scale maps (i.e. with less detail) from large-scale maps (with more detail), i.e. generalisation, used to be a manual task of cartographers. With the need for more up-to-date data as well a...
De introductie van het automatische generalisatie proces binnen het Kadaster veroorzaakte een internationale doorbraak in het produceren van Geo-Informatie en opende deuren om nieuwe producten te ontwikkelen
The issue of automated generalisation resounds for decades in the cartographic and academic world and
has been envisaged as the 'holy grail' of cartography (Anderson-Tarver et al. 2011). Recently, there have
been several achievements, such as the introduction of OS MasterMap in Great Britain and the
replacement of the manual generalisation produ...
This paper reports about the feasibility study carried out by the Dutch Kadaster to automatically
generalise the largest scale topographical data set maintained by the Kadaster (i.e. TOP10NL) from
the 1:1k topographical object oriented data set, which is currently being collected and structured by
organisations that need to maintain public space...
Automated Map Generalisation Meeting today's inforMation deMands nowadays spatial information is much more often displayed on digital devices than on a paper map. Within digital environments, users have high expectations regarding up-to-date information and consistent data when zooming in and out. the recent progress in automated map generalisation...
National Mapping Agencies (NMAs) are still among the main end users of research into automated generalisation, which is transferred into their production lines via various means. This chapter includes contributions from seven NMAs, illustrating how automated generalisation is used in practice within their partly or fully automated databases and map...
This paper presents the implementation of a fully automated production workflow to generalise a 1:50k map from 1:10k data. The feasibility study for this workflow started in 2010 and has led to a production of a countrywide 1:50k map in 2013. From that moment on, the automatically generalised 1:50k map will replace the existing one. Because of the...
This article presents research that implements a fully automated workflow to generalize a 1:50k map from 1:10k data. This is the first time that a complete topographic map has been generalized without any human interaction. More noteworthy is that the resulting map is good enough to replace the existing map. Specifications for the automated process...