GIS

The goal of this paper is to investigate the possibility to identify structural landmarks using movement data collected during an event of a location-based game. Landmarks are visually, structurally or cognitively salient, spatial features used for ...

Data reflecting movements of people, such as GPS or GSM tracks, can be a source of information about mobility behaviors and activities of people. Such information is required for various kinds of spatial planning in the public and business sectors. ...

Place narratives provide a rich resource of learning how humans localize places. Place localization can be done in various ways, relative to other spatial referents, and relative to agents and their activities in which these referents may be involved. ...

In general, it is desirable to have automatic tools that identify places in spatial data and to describe their characteristics, creating high-level summaries for spatial datasets which are valuable for planners, scientists, and policy makers. In this ...

Identifying the spatial structure generated by urban movements contributes to a better understanding of urban dynamics and is crucial to urban planning applications. Despite a number of studies concerning functional urban space, related research is ...

Social media sites include many photographs taken at various locations and times. As described herein, we propose a method to identify hotspots to visualize user interest using geo-tagging of photographs posted on social media sites. Hotspots are ...

Place-based GIS are still a novel research topic and break with some traditions of established systems. The typical spatial perspective is based on geometric reference systems that include coordinates, distances, topology, and directions; while the ...

When maps are not available verbal route descriptions provide a useful alternative for humans navigating in a natural environment. The semantics that emerge from such descriptions encompass several modelling abstractions that have been long studied by ...

The diversity of ways in which toponyms are specified often results in mismatches between queries and the place names contained in gazetteers. Search terms that include unofficial variants of official place names, unanticipated transliterations, and ...

A computational model of understanding place descriptions is a cardinal issue in multiple disciplines and provides critical applications especially in dialog-driven geolocation services. This research targets the automated extraction of spatial triplets ...