Sketch mapping, i.e. freehand drawings of maps on a sheet of paper, is a popular and powerful method to explore a person’s spatial knowledge. Although sketch maps convey rich spatial information, such as the spatial arrangement of places, buildings, streets etc., the methods to analyse sketch maps are extremely simple. At the spatial intelligence lab, we developed a software suite, called SketchMapia, that supports the systematic and comprehensive analysis of sketch maps in experiments.

In this master thesis, you develop systematic test data for a sketch map analysis method and evaluate the SketchMapia analysis method w.r.t. its compleness, correctness and performance against other sketch map analysis methods.