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Toward tighter integration of web search with a geographic information system

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Toward tighter integration of web search with a geographic information system
Integration of Web search with geographic information has recently attracted much attention. There are a number of local Web search systems enabling users to find locationspecific Web content. In this paper, however, we point out that this integration is still at a superficial level. Most local Web search systems today only link local Web content to a map interface. They are extensions of a conventional stand-alone geographic information system (GIS), applied to a Web-based client-server architecture. In this paper, we discuss the directions available for tighter integration of Web search with a GIS, in terms of extraction, knowledge discovery, and presentation. We also describe implementations to support our argument that the integration must go beyond the simple map-and-hyperlink architecture. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Retrieval models General Terms Design Keywords Web-GIS integration, Local Web search, Web mining
Taro Tezuka, Takeshi Kurashima, Katsumi Tanaka
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Type Conference
Year 2006
Where WWW
Authors Taro Tezuka, Takeshi Kurashima, Katsumi Tanaka
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