When is a Ring Road a 'Ring Road'? A Brief Perceptual Study

Quentin Potié (1) , William A Mackaness (2) , Guillaume Touya (1, 3)

1 LaSTIG - Laboratoire sciences et technologies de l'information géographique
2 School of GeoSciences, Institute of Geography & the Lived Environment
3 CRENAU - Centre de recherche nantais Architectures Urbanités

The shapes and patterns of the road network of a topographic map provide important visual cues when interpreting the map and moving between scales in interactive environments. The 'city ring road' is an example of a road structure we might use in the recognition and characterisation of a city. Our goal is the automatic identification (and preservation) of such structures through changing scales. In this preliminary study, we conducted an online survey and face to face interviews in order to obtain and prioritise the structural, topological and semantic properties that define 'ring road-ness'. We then created a practical ontology of ring roads, with a view to algorithm implementation that mirrors the human perception of ring roads.

Mots clés: city ring roads; landmarks; visual cognition; perceptual survey

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Quentin Potié, William A Mackaness, Guillaume Touya. When is a Ring Road a 'Ring Road'? A Brief Perceptual Study. AGILE 2022, Jun 2022, Vilnius, Lithuania. pp.54, ⟨10.5194/agile-giss-3-54-2022⟩. ⟨hal-03695694⟩