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Appears in Collections: | Biological and Environmental Sciences Journal Articles |
Peer Review Status: | Refereed |
Title: | Mapping the visual magnitude of popular tourist sites in Edinburgh city |
Author(s): | Bartie, Phil Mackaness, William |
Contact Email: | phil.bartie@stir.ac.uk |
Keywords: | vista space visual exposure landmarks perception maps Flickr tags |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
Date Deposited: | 1-Jul-2015 |
Citation: | Bartie P & Mackaness W (2016) Mapping the visual magnitude of popular tourist sites in Edinburgh city. Journal of Maps, 12 (2), pp. 203-210. https://doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2014.1001453 |
Abstract: | There is value in being able to automatically measure and visualise the visual magnitude of city sites (monuments and buildings, tourist sites) – for example in urban planning, as an aid to automated way finding, or in augmented reality city guides. Here we present the outputs of an algorithm able to calculate visual magnitude – both as an absolute measure of the façade area, and in terms of a building’s perceived magnitude (its lesser importance with distance). Both metrics influence the photogenic nature of a site. We therefore compared against maps showing the locations from where geo-located FlickR images were taken. The results accord with the metrics and therefore help disambiguate the meaning of FlickR tags. |
DOI Link: | 10.1080/17445647.2014.1001453 |
Rights: | This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Maps on 15 January 2015, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17445647.2014.1001453 |
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Main Map.pdf | Fulltext - Accepted Version | 16.07 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
Visual Magnitude of Edinburgh City Objects.pdf | Fulltext - Accepted Version | 2.88 MB | Adobe PDF | View/Open |
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