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GIS
2002
ACM
14 years 6 days ago
Data-gathering strategies for social-behavioural research about participatory geographical information system use
Studies about geographical information systems (GIS) use contribute to geographic information science through critical evaluation of the concepts embedded in GIS tools. Social-beha...
Timothy L. Nyerges, Piotr Jankowski, Christina H. ...
CLEF
2008
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Using GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval
Abstract. We present a method that uses GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval. During the indexing phase, all places are disambiguated and assigned their coordinates on...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso
GIR
2007
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Geo-tagging for imprecise regions of different sizes
Extracting geographical information from various web sources is likely to be important for a variety of applications. One such use for this information is to enable the study of v...
Robert Pasley, Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson
CGI
1998
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Visualizing 3-D Geographical Data with VRML
This article discusses visualizing and interacting with 3-D geographical data via VRML in the Web environment. For this purpose, the Web-based desktop VR for geographical informat...
Jie Shan
IV
2005
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Mobile Augmented Reality Techniques for GeoVisualisation
This paper presents the first prototype of an interactive visualisation framework specifically designed for presenting geographical information in both indoor and outdoor environm...
Fotis Liarokapis, Ian Greatbatch, David Mountain, ...
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Inferring Geographical Ontologies from Multiple Resources for Geographical Information Retrieval
Many documents that can be found in the World Wide Web include some kind of geographical information, often in an implicit way. The use of resources like gazetteers and geographic...
Davide Buscaldi, Paolo Rosso, Piedachu Peris
GIR
2006
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Indexing implicit locations for geographical information retrieval
Local search has become a hot topic recently in information retrieval research area. How to retrieve geographical information correctly and efficiently is a key challenge to locat...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...