Constructing gazetteers from volunteered Big Geo-Data based on Hadoop

Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volumn 61, Issue , 2017, Pages 172-186

  Gao, Song ^a   Li, Linna ^c   Li, Wenwen ^b   Janowicz, Krzysztof ^a   Zhang, Yue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Big Geo Data; CyberGIS; Gazetteers; Hadoop; Scalable geoprocessing workflow; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

DATA MINING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE;

CYBERGIS; GAZETTEERS; GEO-DATA; GEOPROCESSING WORKFLOW; HADOOP; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

BIG DATA;

EID: 84895597100     PISSN: 01989715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2014.02.004     Document Type: Article

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