Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems: 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, December 7-8, 2009. Proceedings

✍ Scribed by Hanan Samet (auth.), James D. Carswell, A. Stewart Fotheringham, Gavin McArdle (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 208
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5886 : Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Web and Wirelsss Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2009, held in Maynooth, Ireland, in December 2009. The 12 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.

The papers span a wide area including but not limited from geospatial analysis and personalization and semantic geo-spatial web to W2GIS case studies and web and mobile applications and prototypes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Database and Representation Issues in Geographic Information Systems (GIS)....Pages 1-6
Moving Phenomenon: Aggregation and Analysis of Geotime-Tagged Contents on the Web....Pages 7-24
GeoPW: Towards the Geospatial Processing Web....Pages 25-38
Towards an Integration of Space and Accessibility in Web Personalization....Pages 39-55
Tiled Vectors: A Method for Vector Transmission over the Web....Pages 56-71
Semantic Challenges for Sensor Plug and Play....Pages 72-86
Providing Universal Access to History Textbooks: A Modified GIS Case....Pages 87-102
Data Integration GeoService: A First Proposed Approach Using Historical Geographic Data....Pages 103-119
A Study of Spatial Interaction Behaviour for Improved Delivery of Web-Based Maps....Pages 120-134
EgoViz – A Mobile Based Spatial Interaction System....Pages 135-152
Wired Fisheye Lens: A Motion-Based Improved Fisheye Interface for Mobile Web Map Services....Pages 153-170
Automatic Generation of an Adaptive WebGIS....Pages 171-186
Campus Guidance System for International Conferences Based on OpenStreetMap....Pages 187-198
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Geographical Information Systems/Cartography; Personal Computing; Special Purpose and Application-Based Systems; Computer Applications in Earth Sciences; Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry