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.
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
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, ...