Geographic information has spawned many novel Web applications where global
positioning system (GPS) plays important roles in bridging the applications and end users …

BACKGROUND Globalization necessitates an audience of diverse lan guages and
geographic locations. To satisfy a users informa tion need, relevance is necessarily a …

Local aspects of Web search-associating Web content and queries with geography-is a topic
of growing interest. However, the underlying question of how spatial variation is manifested …

Scrapy is an open-source web-crawling platform implemented in Python. As part of an
undergraduate research project, the lead author created a web crawler with Scrapy that …

Ad hoc keyword search engines built using modern information retrieval methods do a good
job of handling fine-grained queries. However, they perform poorly at facilitating spatial and …

In this paper we present an application framework that leverages geospatial content on the
World Wide Web by enabling innovative modes of interaction and novel types of user …

The explosive growth of the smartphones market and social network sites such as the Twitter
has enabled to share numerous short messages reflecting our daily lives and social events …

GUEST EDITORS'INTRODUCTION connectivity by 2020. 1 Google CEO Eric Schmidt
believes the future of computing lies in smart mobile devices and data centers, and that over …

We describe a way to extract visitors' experiences from Weblogs (blogs) and also a way to
mine and visualize activities of visitors at sightseeing spots. A system using our proposed …

Driven by travel demand, the distribution and density of taxi passenger pick-up and drop-off
points reflect the attractiveness of an area and thus, can be used to find out hot spots and the …