: Lakhmi Jain, Xindong Wu, Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann.
: Arno Scharl, Klaus Tochtermann
: The Geospatial Web How Geobrowsers, Social Software and the Web 2.0 are Shaping the Network Society
: Springer-Verlag
: 9781846288272
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This volume emphasizes the applications and implications of the Geospatial Web and the role of contextual knowledge in shaping the emerging network society. There is a clear focus on applied geospatial aspects. The book has contributions from a very active research community. Containing chapters from renowned researchers and practitioners, this volume will be invaluable to all interested in this field.
Foreword6
Preface7
Table of Contents9
List of Authors11
Chapter 1 Towards the Geospatial Web: Media Platforms for Managing Geotagged Knowledge Repositories15
Chapter 2 Infrastructure for the Geospatial Web27
Chapter 4 What s So Special about Spatial?51
Chapter 6 Location- based Web Search65
Chapter 7 Ubiquitous Browsing of the World77
Chapter 10 Enhancing RSS Feeds with Extracted Geospatial Information for Further Processing and Visualization112
Chapter 11 A Supervised Machine Learning Approach to Toponym Disambiguation123
Chapter 12 Geospatial Information Integration for Science Activity Planning at the Mars Desert Research Station135
Chapter 14 Participating in the Geospatial Web: Collaborative Mapping, Social Networks and Participatory GIS157
Chapter 16 Supporting Geo- Semantic Web Communities with the DBin Platform: Use Cases and Perspectives175
Chapter 17 A Geospatial Web Platform for Natural Hazard Exposure Assessment in the Insurance Sector181
Chapter 20 Introduction to Ubiquitous Cartography and Dynamic Geovisualization with Implications for Disaster and Crisis Management211
Chapter 21 Fire Alerts for the Geospatial Web217
Chapter 22 Geospatial Web Services: The Evolution of Geospatial Data Infrastructure223
Chapter 25 Geospatial Data Integration with Semantic Web Services: The eMerges Approach246
Bibliography256
Online Resources286
Index289