Collaborations Workshop 2018 - 2018-03-26

Automated Network Map construction -

HP13-CW18

Hackday Idea Proposer

Diana Suleimenova - diana.n.suleimenova@gmail.com

Context / Research Domain

An idea of constructing an automated network maps initiated from refugee simulation context. However, this can be useful for other scenarios where researchers or practitioners have multiple locations and require to know how these locations are connected and their distances represented visually. There are also other domains that use simulations for animal and bird migrations, as well as vehicle movements that require visual representations (i.e. network maps).

Problem

Prediction of refugee movements requires network maps. As, we have several locations, and identifying their connections, distances and constructing or visualising these links are time consuming. Hence, manually constructed network maps are proven to be inefficient at this moment.

Solution

Automated network map construction can be a tool (or website) to automate detection of locations, their route connections and distances. Hence, it can use a dataset (e.g. locations.csv) with location names and GPS coordinates (in csv format)

Location csv table. Schematic representation of a network.

and construct network map by following the steps below:

  1. Identify locations
  2. Indicate these location and provide name
  3. Connect locations
  4. Provide distances between locations
  5. Generate a file named routes.csv

A routes.csv file.

Diagrams / Illustrations

Network map of Burundi.

Network map for Burundi