 A Survey of Textual Data & Geospatial TechnologyJochen L. Leidner
Chapter Chapter 16 in Handbook of Big Geospatial Data, 2021, pp 429-457 from Springer Abstract: Abstract While address geocoding has a long-established track record of research as well as industry deployment as part of GIS systems and online Web services, postal addresses are not the only way to textually encode geographic footprints. For instance, toponyms in particular can be recognized in prose text and “toponym resolution” (Leidner, Comput Environ Urban Syst 30(4):400--417, 2006; Toponym resolution in text: annotation, evaluation and applications of spatial grounding of place names. Ph.D. thesis, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, 2007) has been defined as the mapping of a name for a place to a spatial footprint, enables better spatial applications. In this chapter, we review a range of alternative methods to arrive at a geographic footprints, starting out from different types of input such as available unstructured text and structured meta-data such as postal addresses, toponym mentions and geographic phrase resolution as well as KML, GeoRDF and other structured metadata formats. A range of application types are then described that are supported by georeferencing technologies to show the potential inherent in computing with geospatial data at scale. Date: 2021 There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-55462-0_16 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-55462-0_16 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Springer Books from Springer |
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