Finding Popular Places

Widespread availability of location aware devices (such as GPS receivers) promotes capture of detailed movement trajectories of people, animals, vehicles and other moving objects, opening new options for a better understanding of the processes involved. We investigate spatio-temporal movement patterns in large tracking data sets. Specifically we study so-called ‘popular places’, that is, regions that are visited by many entities. We present upper and lower bounds.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: ISAAC
• Authors: Marc Benkert, Bojan Djordjevic, Joachim Gudmundsson, Thomas Wolle
• Keywords: Detailed Movement Trajectories, ISAAC 2007, Location Aware Devices, Spatio-temporal Movement Patterns