Significant amounts of information available today contain references to places on earth.
Traditionally such information has been held as structured data and was the concern of …

The availability of open data and of tools to create visualizations on top of these open
datasets have led to an ever-growing amount of geovisualizations on the Web. There is thus …

Given a geographic query that is composed of query keywords and a location, a geographic
search engine retrieves documents that are the most textually and spatially relevant to the …

Geographic web search engines allow users to constrain and order search results in an
intuitive manner by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search …

Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for
many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime …

The most important attribute of geospatial platforms is their unique potential to aggregate a
multitude of public and private geographic data sets, providing access to data from …

Place names are often used to describe and to enquire about geographical information. It is
common for users to employ vernacular names that have vague spatial extent and which do …

Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include
geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat …

Abstract The Geosciences and Geography are not just yet another application area for
semantic technologies. The vast heterogeneity of the involved disciplines ranging from the …

Ontologies play a key role in Semantic Web research. A common use of ontologies in
Semantic Web is to enrich the current Web resources with some well-defined meaning to …