Ontology is a significant research theme in GIScience. While some researchers believe that
the progress in GIScience is being directed through an engagement with the concept of …

A large proportion of the resources available on the world-wide web refer to information that
may be regarded as geographically located. Thus most activities and enterprises take place …

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 …

Traditional gazetteers are built and maintained by authoritative map** agencies. In the
age of Big Data, it is possible to construct gazetteers in a data-driven approach by mining …

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 …

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 …

We describe an approach for extracting semantics for tags, unstructured text-labels assigned
to resources on the Web, based on each tag's usage patterns. In particular, we focus on the …

The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search
technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components …

Abstract The Web of Data, and in particular Linked Data, has seen tremendous growth over
the past years. However, reuse and take-up of these rich data sources is often limited and …