Answering geographic questions with user generated content: Experiences from the coal face

Proceedings of the Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 297-299

  Purves, Ross S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Metadata; Trajectory analysis; Uncertainty; User generated content; Vernacular regions

Indexed keywords

COAL FACE; DATA QUALITY; DATA SOURCE; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY; USER GENERATED CONTENT; VERNACULAR REGIONS;

METADATA; TRAJECTORIES; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

COMPUTATIONAL GEOMETRY;

EID: 79960196565     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1998196.1998246     Document Type: Conference Paper

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