Technology Integration around the Geographic Information: A State of the Art
One of the elements that have popularized and facilitated the use
of geographical information on a variety of computational
applications has been the use of Web maps; this has opened new
research challenges on different subjects, from locating places
and people, the study of social behavior or the analyzing of the
hidden structures of the terms used in a natural language query
used for locating a place. However, the use of geographic
information under technological features is not new, instead it
has been part of a development and technological integration
process. This paper presents a state of the art review about the
application of geographic information under different
approaches: its use on location based services, the collaborative
user participation on it, its contextual-awareness, its use in the
Semantic Web and the challenges of its use in natural language
queries. Finally, a prototype that integrates most of these areas is
presented.
Keywords: Geographic Information System, Location Based Services, Mashups, Semantic Web
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