The emergence of big data brings new opportunities for us to understand our socioeconomic
environments. We use the term social sensing for such individual-level big geospatial data …

Culture has been recognized as a driving impetus for human development. It co-evolves
with both human belief and behavior. When studying culture, Cultural Map** is a crucial …

After hundreds of years of human settlement, each city has formed a distinct identity,
distinguishing itself from other cities. In this work, we propose to characterize the identity of a …

With the rapid progress of global urbanization and function division among different
geographical regions, it is of urgent need to develop methods that can find regions of …

Characterizing the structure of cities constitutes an important task, since the identification of
similar cities can promote sharing of respective experiences. In the present work, we …

Research in the area of spatial cognition demonstrated that references to landmarks are
essential in the communication and the interpretation of wayfinding instructions for human …

With the proliferation of mobile devices and location-based services, rich geo-tagged data is
becoming prevalent and this offer great opportunities to understand different geographical …

Location-based Social Networks (LBSN) allow users to check-in in a Point-of-Interest (POI) 1
and share their activities with friends, providing publicly available data about their behavior …

Data generated on location-based social networks provide rich information on the
whereabouts of urban dwellers. Specifically, such data reveal who spends time where …

The motivation for tourists to visit a city is often driven by the uniqueness of the attractions
accessible within the region. The draw to these locations varies by visitor as some travellers …