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Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems

10th International Symposium, W2GIS 2011, Kyoto, Japan, March 3-4, 2011, Proceedings

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Editors:
  1. Katsumi Tanaka

    1. Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Japan

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  2. Peter Fröhlich

    1. Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Vienna, Austria

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  3. Kyoung-Sook Kim

    1. Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Soraku-gun, Japan

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6574)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. Invited Talks

    1. Build Intelligence from the Physical World

      • Xing Xie
      Pages 1-3

    2. How OpenStreetMap Is Changing the World

      • Steve Coast
      Pages 4-4

  3. Geographic Information Retrieval

    1. GeoST: Geographic, Thematic and Temporal Information Retrieval from Heterogeneous Web Data Sources

      • Felix Mata, Christophe Claramunt
      Pages 5-20

    2. Extraction and Geographical Navigation of Important Historical Events in the Web

      • Mitsuo Yamamoto, Yuku Takahashi, Hirotoshi Iwasaki, Satoshi Oyama, Hiroaki Ohshima, Katsumi Tanaka
      Pages 21-35

    3. Investigation of Recommendation Method Considering Region-Restrictedness of Spots

      • Kenta Oku, Fumio Hattori
      Pages 36-49

  4. Geospatial Semantic and Sensor Web

    1. A Case Study of Participatory Data Transfer for Urban Temperature Monitoring

      • Houtan Shirani-Mehr, Farnoush Banaei-Kashani, Cyrus Shahabi, Lin Zhang
      Pages 50-63

    2. A Folksonomy-Based Recommendation System for the Sensor Web

      • Rohana Rezel, Steve Liang
      Pages 64-77

    3. Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis

      • Andrea Ballatore, Michela Bertolotto
      Pages 78-93

  5. Location-Based Services and Applications

    1. A Mobile Navigation and Orientation System for Blind Users in a Metrobus Environment

      • Felix Mata, Andres Jaramillo, Christophe Claramunt
      Pages 94-108

    2. A Rich Cloud Application to Improve Sustainable Mobility

      • Sergio Di Martino, Clemente Giorio, Raffaele Galiero
      Pages 109-123

    3. Mobile Task Computing: Beyond Location-Based Services and EBooks

      • John Liagouris, Spiros Athanasiou, Alexandros Efentakis, Stefan Pfennigschmidt, Dieter Pfoser, Eleni Tsigka et al.
      Pages 124-141

  6. Advanced GIS Visualization Techniques

    1. Cinematic Street: Automatic Street View Walk-through System Using Characteristics of Modified Maps

      • Kaori Kobayashi, Daisuke Kitayama, Kazutoshi Sumiya
      Pages 142-158

    2. HYDROSYS – A Mixed Reality Platform for On-Site Visualization of Environmental Data

      • Antti Nurminen, Ernst Kruijff, Eduardo Veas
      Pages 159-175

    3. Inferring and Focusing Areas of Interest from GPS Traces

      • Pablo Martinez Lerin, Daisuke Yamamoto, Naohisa Takahashi
      Pages 176-187

  7. Web and Mobile Map Adaptation

    1. Remote-Evaluation of User Interaction with WebGIS

      • Jens Ingensand, François Golay
      Pages 188-202

    2. Touch2Query Enabled Mobile Devices: A Case Study Using OpenStreetMap and iPhone

      • Junjun Yin, James D. Carswell
      Pages 203-218

  8. Geospatial Data Quality and Context

    1. Delimiting Imprecise Regions with Georeferenced Photos and Land Coverage Data

      • Bruno Martins
      Pages 219-229

    2. Visualization of Relationships among Historical Persons Using Locational Information

      • Takahiko Osaki, Sho Itsubo, Fuminori Kimura, Taro Tezuka, Akira Maeda
      Pages 230-239

  9. Back Matter

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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Japan

    Katsumi Tanaka

  • Telecommunications Research Center Vienna (ftw.), Vienna, Austria

    Peter Fröhlich

  • Knowledge Creating Communication Research Center, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Soraku-gun, Japan

    Kyoung-Sook Kim

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