A geocoding information system for Greenland | Janis Siksnans
| | Abstract | Currently, addressing practices in Greenland do not fully support geocoding. Addressing points on a map by geographic coordinates is vital for emergency services such as police and ambulance for improving e fficiency and avoiding ambiguities in incident handling. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the current addressing practices in Greenland. Asiaq is a public organization of the Government of Greenland which holds three data sets regarding addressing and place references:
- locality names (towns and settlements),
- technical base maps (road center lines and buildings),-
- the NIN registry (The Land Use Register of Greenland - information on the land allotments and buildings in Greenland).
The main problem is that these data sets are not interconnected, thus making it impossible to address a point in a map with geographic coordinates in a standardised way. The possible solutions suffer from the fact that Greenland has a scattered habitation pattern which makes it in flexible towards generalisation of the addressing model.
The aim is to propose an information system for the addressing system in Greenland which would support geocoding. Part of this research is dedicated to the investigation of current addressing practices in Greenland and user requirement engineering. This facilitates the design of a conceptual database model which is derived from the user requirements. Furthermore, this research includes a background survey on other addressing and geocoding systems, resemblance fi ndings in Danish and Greenland's addressing practices, a data dictionary for establishing a Greenland addressing system's ontology and enhanced entity relationship diagram.
The development of the Greenland addressing system using a geographic information system (GIS) and database technology would ease the work and improve the quality of public services such as: postal delivery, emergency response, customer/business relationship management, administration of land, utility planning, maintenance and public statistical data analysis, urban and regional planning, and support other decision makers. | | Type | Master's thesis [Academic thesis] | | Year | 2012 | | Publisher | Technical University of Denmark, DTU Informatics, E-mail: reception@imm.dtu.dk | | Address | Asmussens Alle, Building 305, DK-2800 Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark | | Series | IMM-M.Sc.-2012-48 | | Note | | | Electronic version(s) | [pdf] | | Publication link | http://www.imm.dtu.dk/English.aspx | | BibTeX data | [bibtex] | | IMM Group(s) | Image Analysis & Computer Graphics |
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