Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 7th International Symposium, W2GIS 2007, Cardiff, UK, November 28-29, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4857)

These proceedings contain the papers selected for presentation at the Seventh International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems (W2GIS 2007). The symposium was organized locally by the University of Glamorgan (UK) and held in Cardiff (UK) in November 2007. It was the latest in a series of annual events that started in Kyoto 2001 and now alternate locations each year between East Asia and Europe. As in previous years, the aim of the symposium was to provide an up-to-date review of advances and recent developments in theoretical and technical issues relating to Web and wireless GIS technologies. The symposium organizers received 45 full papers in response to the call for papers. These papers went through a thorough review process, with each paper being assessed by at least three reviewers. The quality of papers was high, and 21 were selected for presentation and inclusion in these proceedings. It was particularly pleasing to note that 19 different countries are represented by the authors of selected papers. The keynote address was delivered by Jonathan Raper of City University, London, in which he talked about his research work in the areas of location-based services and mobile information needs. We wish to thank all the authors that submitted papers to this symposium. Our special thanks go to all those who attended, and particularly those who presented. Front Matter....Pages - Continuous Perspective Query Processing for 3-D Objects on Road Networks....Pages 1-15 A GIS Based Approach to Predicting Road Surface Temperatures....Pages 16-29 Thematic Clustering of Geographic Resource Metadata Collections....Pages 30-43 The Need for Web Legend Services....Pages 44-60 Supporting Range Queries on Web Data Using k -Nearest Neighbor Search....Pages 61-75 XFormsGI – Extending XForms for Geospatial and Sensor Data....Pages 76-93 Web Architecture for Monitoring and Visualizing Mobile Objects in Maritime Contexts....Pages 94-105 A Theoretical Grounding for Semantic Descriptions of Place ....Pages 106-120 Towards the Geo-spatial Querying of the Semantic Web with ONTOAST....Pages 121-136 Modeling Environmental Process Using Semantic Geospatial Web Service....Pages 137-147 Historic Queries in Geosensor Networks....Pages 148-161 Wireless Positioning Techniques – A Developers Update....Pages 162-174 Framy – Visualizing Spatial Query Results on Mobile Interfaces....Pages 175-186 PhotoMap – Automatic Spatiotemporal Annotation for Mobile Photos....Pages 187-201 Towards the Next Generation of Location-Based Services....Pages 202-215 Automated Schematization for Web Service Applications....Pages 216-226 A Continuous Spatial Query Processing for Push-Based Geographic Web Search Systems....Pages 227-238 OGC Web Processing Service Interface for Web Service Orchestration Aggregating Geo-processing Services in a Bomb Threat Scenario....Pages 239-251 A Client for Distributed Geo-processing on the Web....Pages 252-263 Heuristic Evaluation of Usability of GeoWeb Sites....Pages 264-278 GeminiMap – Geographical Enhanced Map Interface for Navigation on the Internet....Pages 279-292 Back Matter....Pages - Annotation This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2007, held in Cardiff, UK, in November 2007. The 21 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 45 submissions. The papers provide an up-to-date review of advances in recent development of Web and wireless geographical information systems and address issues like conceptual and logical models for W2GIS, data management and data retrieval methods, geographical search engines and Web services, W2GIS query languages and interfaces, 2D and 3D information visualization, exploratory cartography and interfaces, W2GIS data mining, W2GIS security, W2GIS applications and prototypes, location-based services, semantic geo-spatial Web, mobile and wireless GIS, as well as ubiquitous W2GIS