USAGE OF VARIANCE IN DETERMINATION OF SINUOSITY INTERVALS FOR ROAD MATCHING

Geo-object matching is a process that identifies, classifies and matches the object pairs with regards to their maximum similarity in whole datasets. The matching process is used to handle updating, aligning, optimizing, integrating and/or quality measuring of road networks. There are several metrics used in matching algorithms such as Hausdorff distance, orientation, valence, sinuosity etc. Sinuosity is a ratio of actual length of a road to the straight length among start and end points of the same road. Sinuosity defines how curve a road is. In a matching process, it is necessary to determine the sinuosity thresholds or intervals firstly. Sinuosity intervals can be determined by several data classification methods such as equal interval, quantile, natural breaks and geometrical interval. Furthermore, the intervals determined by Ireland Transportation Agency can be used in parallel with this purpose. In this study, it was aimed to find out if the variance can be used in determination of sinuosity intervals as well. An experiment was conducted to compare all of the methods mentioned above. According to the results in road matching, the efficiency of the sinuosity intervals determined by the methods differs from 37.4% to 49.4%, and it seems that the intervals determined by the variance are the most efficient ones.