Retrieval of Similar Travel Routes Using GPS Tracklog Place Names

GPS tracklogs provide a valuable record of routes travelled. In this paper we describe initial experiments exploring the use of text information retrieval techniques for the location of similar trips from within a GPS tracklog. We performed the experiment on a dataset of 528 individual trips gathered over a seven month time period from a single user. The results of our preliminary study suggest that traditional text-based information retrieval techniques can indeed be used to locate similar and related tracklogs. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL]: Information Search and Retrieval – Retrieval models General Terms Algorithms, Experimentation. Keywords GPS, trip matching.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: GIR
• Authors: Aiden R. Doherty, Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Alan F. Smeaton
• Keywords: GIR 2006, Gps Tracklog, Information Retrieval, Information Retrieval Techniques, Text Information Retrieval