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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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Table of contents (18 papers)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Invited Talks

  3. Geographic Information Retrieval

    1. 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
  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
  8. Geospatial Data Quality and Context

    1. 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.

Keywords

  • 3D maps
  • Web information retrieval
  • augmented reality
  • geospatial Web-services
  • local search
  • location-based services
  • mixed reality
  • mobile navigation
  • ontology
  • openstreetmap
  • orientation algorithm
  • sensor networks
  • street view
  • text mining
  • visualization

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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