Conceptual Design of Malaysia Geopostcode System
This research attempts to investigate and develop a conceptual design of new Malaysia geopostcode system. A postcode is the fundamental and essential element of a modern address with numeric and/or alphanumeric characters. It is a series of numbers representing specific areas within a country. In Malaysia, postcodes are now a series of five numbers and it is non-geographical postcode and cannot be used for precise navigation and very limited to social science and economic purposes. Due to the growing demand in navigation devices, smartphone users and also other applications, a geographical postcode should be implemented in Malaysia. Addresses such as “No 1, Jalan Tembaga, Taman Sri Skudai, 81310 Skudai, Johor Bahru” are still being used for addressing. These require local knowledge and slow up courier companies and emergency services. To support the demand for more precise addressing from industries dependent on vehicle navigation and Location Based Services, a new addressing system should be developed based on spatial location. By implementation of this geopostcode, time consuming for searching the address will be reduced and increase the preciseness of the location database. It is can be more flexible, easy to understand, easy to implement and promote data consistency in economic and social developments, and governance. This new geopostcode hope will achieve greater usability need to make the postcode as familiar to the person as their telephone and car plate numbers as well as it is more likely to be remembered. The research is needed to understand the local problems in geopostcode addressing in Malaysia by categorizing between states, districts, mukims, housing area and street levels of addresses before adopting a new geopostcode system. The research will be intensively working and supporting from government agencies such as Pos Malaysia, JUPEM and MacGDI.
| Original Project Start | : | 01/07/2014 | ||
| Original Project End | : | 30/06/2015 | ||
| Original Project Duration | : | 12 Month(s) | ||
Automated Credibility Assessment of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Flood Hazard Management
Within the framework of Web 3.0 mapping applications, the information can be collected by volunteers, store on a database and distributed in multiple digital formats through the World Wide Web. This type of information was termed ‘Volunteered Geographical Information’ (VGI) by Goodchild, 2007. Volunteer’s participation in data collection is playing an increasingly important role in the management of emergency events due to the adoption of mobile and Internet technologies. However, to date there has been no automated and systematic framework for credibility analysis of VGI. The research explores solutions for challenges facing the usage of VGI in hazard management by investigating current tools for assessing VGI, which can be used for flood hazard management. To fulfill the goal the research focuses on two main parts; in the first step data about flood would be collected from volunteers, second by classifying the data which are more related to flood will be analyzed to qualify its credibility through a filtering to the datasets by statistics, geostatistics and content analysis. The result of this research will aid in exploiting the hidden potential of VGI in flood hazard management, also the decision makers will be able to monitor developmental activities to reduce risk and damage. Which would prove that the use of Web 3.0 technologies such as social media and map mashups to be effective for gathering and disseminating geospatial data to members of the public.
| Original Project Start | : | 01/07/2014 | ||
| Original Project End | : | 30/06/2016 | ||
| Original Project Duration | : | 24 Month(s) | ||