Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 10th International Symposium, W2GIS 2011, Kyoto, Japan, March 3-4, 2011, Proceedings

by Katsushi Tanaka (Editor), Peter Fröhlich (Editor), Kyoung-Sook Kim (Editor)

Overview

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2011, held in Kyoto, Japan, in March 2011. A total of 13 full and 3 short papers plus 2 short keynote papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 36 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics including geographic information retrieval on the web, geo-spatial semantic and sensor web, location-based services, advanced GIS visualization techniques, personalization and adjustment for mobile GIS applications, and geo-spatial data quality and context processing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642191725
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	04/06/2011
Series:	Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #6574
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	241
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Invited Talks

Build Intelligence from the Physical World Xing Xie 1

How OpenStreetMap Is Changing the World Steve Coast 4

Geographic Information Retrieval

GeoST: Geographic, Thematic and Temporal Information Retrieval from Heterogeneous Web Data Sources Felix Mata Christophe Claramunt 5

Extraction and Geographical Navigation of Important Historical Events in the Web Mitsuo Yamamoto Yuku Takahashi Hirotoshi Iwasaki Satoshi Oyama Hiroaki Ohshima Katsumi Tanaka 21

Investigation of Recommendation Method Considering Region-Restrictedness of Spots Kenta Oku Fumio Hattori 36

Geospatial Semantic and Sensor Web

A Case Study of Participatory Data Transfer for Urban Temperature Monitoring Houtan Shirani-Mehr Farnoush Banaei-Kashani Cyrus Shahabi Lin Zhang 50

A Folksonomy-Based Recommendation System for the Sensor Web Rohana Rezel Steve Liang 64

Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis Andrea Ballatore Michela Bertolotto 78

Location-Based Services and Applications

A Mobile Navigation and Orientation System for Blind Users in a Metrobus Environment Felix Mata Andres Jaramillo Christophe Claramunt 94

A Rich Cloud Application to Improve Sustainable Mobility Sergio Di Martino Clemente Giorio Raffaele Galiero 109

Mobile Task Computing: Beyond Location-Based Services and EBooks John Liagouris Spiros Athanasiou Alexandros Efentakis Stefan Pfennigschmidt Dieter Pfoser Eleni Tsigka Agnès Voisard 124

Advanced GIS Visualization Techniques

Cinematic Street: Automatic Street View Walk-through System Using Characteristics of Modified Maps Kaori Kobayashi Daisuke Kitayama Kazutoshi Sumiya 142

HYDROSYS - A Mixed Reality Platform for On-Site Visualization of Environmental Data Antti Nurminen Ernst Kruijff Eduardo Veas 159

Inferring and Focusing Areas of Interest from GPS Traces Pablo Martinez Lerin Daisuke Yamamoto Naohisa Takahashi 176

Web and Mobile Map Adaptation

Remote-Evaluation of User Interaction with WebGIS Jens Ingensand François Golay 188

Touch2Query Enabled Mobile Devices: A Case Study Using OpenStreetMap and iPhone Junjun Yin James D. Carswell 203

Geospatial Data Quality and Context

Delimiting Imprecise Regions with Georeferenced Photos and Land Coverage Data Bruno Martins 219

Visualization of Relationships among Historical Persons Using Locational Information Takahiko Osaki Sho Itsubo Fuminori Kimura Taro Tezuka Akira Maeda 230

Author Index 241