The Web is a source of information for Location-Based Service (LBS) applications. These
applications lack postal addresses for the user's Point of Interests (POIs) such as schools …

Abstract Points of Interest (POIs) are crucial data sources for location based applications.
Social media and traditional web can include up-to-date POI information that is emerging in …

In this paper, we consider the problem of constructing a comprehensive database of events
taking place around the world. Events include small hyper-local events like farmer's markets …

Large language models (LLMs) exhibit emerging geospatial capabilities, stemming from
their pre-training on vast unlabelled text datasets that are often derived from the Common …

This paper outlines our ongoing efforts at building an effective disaster relief system utilizing
real-time, crowdsourced responses to disaster events. This system integrates three …

While human users refer to locations using toponyms and addresses, computers rely on
latitude and longitude coordinates, or similar, numerical encoding of location information …