Web and wireless geographical information systems : 10th international symposium, W2GIS 2011, Kyoto, Japan, March 3-4, 2011 : proceedings

Annotation 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 Front Matter....Pages - Build Intelligence from the Physical World....Pages 1-3 How OpenStreetMap Is Changing the World....Pages 4-4 GeoST: Geographic, Thematic and Temporal Information Retrieval from Heterogeneous Web Data Sources....Pages 5-20 Extraction and Geographical Navigation of Important Historical Events in the Web....Pages 21-35 Investigation of Recommendation Method Considering Region-Restrictedness of Spots....Pages 36-49 A Case Study of Participatory Data Transfer for Urban Temperature Monitoring....Pages 50-63 A Folksonomy-Based Recommendation System for the Sensor Web....Pages 64-77 Semantically Enriching VGI in Support of Implicit Feedback Analysis....Pages 78-93 A Mobile Navigation and Orientation System for Blind Users in a Metrobus Environment....Pages 94-108 A Rich Cloud Application to Improve Sustainable Mobility....Pages 109-123 Mobile Task Computing: Beyond Location-Based Services and EBooks....Pages 124-141 Cinematic Street : Automatic Street View Walk-through System Using Characteristics of Modified Maps....Pages 142-158 HYDROSYS – A Mixed Reality Platform for On-Site Visualization of Environmental Data....Pages 159-175 Inferring and Focusing Areas of Interest from GPS Traces....Pages 176-187 Remote-Evaluation of User Interaction with WebGIS....Pages 188-202 Touch2Query Enabled Mobile Devices: A Case Study Using OpenStreetMap and iPhone....Pages 203-218 Delimiting Imprecise Regions with Georeferenced Photos and Land Coverage Data....Pages 219-229 Visualization of Relationships among Historical Persons Using Locational Information....Pages 230-239 Back Matter....Pages - This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 13th International Symposium, W2GIS 2014, held in Seoul, South Korea, in May 2014.