Mapping geographic coverage of the web

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 154-162

  Pasley, Robert ^a   Clough, Paul ^a   Purves, Ross S ^b   Twaroch, Florian A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gazetteers; Geographic information retrieval; Geographic references; Web coverage

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY PROJECT; GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; GREAT BRITAIN; ORDNANCE SURVEYS; SEARCH QUERIES; WEB SOURCES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SECURITY OF DATA;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 70449730084     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463434.1463459     Document Type: Conference Paper

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