This research-in-progress analyzes the impacts of geospatial website attributes on eImage, or the online image of an organization. Specifically, geospatial attributes on websites of serviceoriented businesses that must convince consumers to visit their physical locations are addressed. Limited existing research regarding geospatial website attributes provided the motivation to conduct this stud...

Semantic interoperability is needed to support meaningful data exchanges in distributed environments such as ad hoc networks of geospatial databases and geospatial web services. Even with the recent increasing popularity of ontologies to capture semantics of geospatial resources, semantics of geospatial data are often implicit or too weak to support meaningful exchanges. In this paper, we argue...

We present a method for visual and interactive geospatial redescription mining. The goal of geospatial redescription mining is to characterize geospatial areas using two different descriptions, such as their bioclimatic features and fauna. Indeed, one application of geospatial redescription mining is finding bioclimatic niches, i.e. explaining the distribution of species using their bioclimatic...

Goodchild has suggested that “geographic” and “geospatial” are subsets of “spatial thinking” relevant to the geographic domain. With respect to this, we evaluate map overlay, a concept central to geospatial thinking to determine how it is naively and technically understood, as well as to identify when it is learned innately. In this paper we discuss results from studies at three grade levels to...

As the acquisition and use of information are costly, the optimal use of information involves economic tradeoffs. Therefore, valuing information is attracting research and thought. However, till now, little attention has been paid to the geospatial information domain, which is increasingly coming to the attention of decision makers seeking to improve decision models by considering spatio-tempor...

Digital curation is a new term that encompasses ideas from established disciplines: it defines a set of activities to manage and improve the transfer of the increasing volume of data products from producers of digital scientific and academic data to consumers, both now and in the future. Research topics in this new area are in a formative stage, but a variety of work that can serve to advance t...

The first Workshop on Security and Privacy in GIS and LBS (SPRINGL 2008) was organized on November 4, 2008 at Irvine (CA) in conjunction with the SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (ACM GIS 2008). The goal of the SPRINGL workshop series is to provide a forum for researchers working in the area of geospatial data security and privacy. Both security ...

The research agenda related to the interoperability of geospatial data is influenced by the increased accessibility of geospatial databases on the Internet, as well as their sharing and their integration. Although it is now possible to get and use geospatial data independently of their syntax and structure, it is still difficult for users to find the exact data they need as long as they do not ...

We estimate a hedonic model of the housing market that includes a spline surface defined on geospatial data (i.e., the longitudes and latitudes of individual dwellings). House price indexes are then obtained by imputing prices for individual dwellings from the hedonic model and then inserting them into the Fisher price index formula. Using data for Sydney, Australia we compare the performance o...

This article provides an overview of the application of geospatial technologies for disaster and emergency management; themotivebehind this special issue is focusingon the importanceofhighlighting theefforts of geospatial technologies community in the field of disaster and emergency management. This issue provides an insight on the future directions of geospatial technologies for disaster manag...