In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
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...
Vague spatial information such as “x is located at walking distance of y” is abundant on the web. In this contribution, we propose a framework to represent such spatial inform...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...
In our aim to modernize geographical legacy data from the German office of geographical survey with XML languages, we first modeled the data in GML, a standard language for geograp...
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...