Abstract-- Mapping mashups are emerging Web 2.0 applications in which data objects such as blogs, photos and videos from different sources are combined and marked in a map using AP...
Anthony K. H. Tung, Beng Chin Ooi, Dongxiang Zhang
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
The content of the world-wide web is pervaded by information of a geographical or spatial nature, particularly such location information as addresses, postal codes, and telephone ...
Yasuhiko Morimoto, Masaki Aono, Michael E. Houle, ...
. A location-based search engine must be able to find and assign proper locations to Web resources. Host, content and metadata location information are not sufficient to describe t...
Saeid Asadi, Jiajie Xu, Yuan Shi, Joachim Diederic...
Geographical context is very important for images. Millions of images on the Web have been already assigned latitude and longitude information. Due to the rapid proliferation of s...