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GIR
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Facilitating situation assessment through gir with multi-scale open source web documents
In this paper, we present our preliminary work on a Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) system that utilizes loosely coupled web services and Google EarthTM (GE) to retrieve, e...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Chi-Chun Pan, Prasenjit Mitr...
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GIR
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Search words and geography
In this paper, we present a preliminary study of geographic query words, which users' tend to re-use. The categories of the words demonstrate that geographically related word...
Mark Sanderson, Yu Han
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GIR
2007
ACM
15 years 8 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
GIR
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Spatial filters for mobile information retrieval
This paper introduces the concept of spatial filters as an approach to increasing the relevance of the information retrieved by users of mobile information systems. This approach ...
David M. Mountain
GIR
2007
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Geographically-aware information retrieval for collections of digitized historical maps
DIGMAP is a project focused on historical digitized maps that will develop a set of Internet services based on reusable open-source software solutions. The main service will provi...
Bruno Martins, José Luis Borbinha, Gilberto...