Information technology tools are being used more frequently by transportation agencies all over the United States in an attempt to increase productivity. Especially, very large depository of documents such as, right of way (ROW) maps or plan files for each state road sections ever built and kept by these agencies constitute a major challenge in terms of their efficient processing and retrieval ...

This article presents considerations made to show how important it is use current information help make a decision. we are currently faced with major social and technological challenges. The main purpose of this discussion gain knowledge about the level technology create geographic systems or visual maps fishery potential in East Java advantages GIS fishing industry. Studies based on idea need ...

Natural language interface to spatial databases have not received a lot of attention in computational linguistics, in spite of the potential value of such systems for users of Geographical Information Systems (GISs). This paper presents a controlled language for GIS queries, solves some of the semantic problems for spatial inference in this language, and introduces a system that implements this...

Geographical information systems (GIS) have been extensively used Objective: for the development of epidemiological maps of tropical diseases, however not yet specifically for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection. Surveillance case data of the ongoing epidemics of ZIKV in the Methods: Tolima department, Colombia (2015-2016) were used to estimate cumulative incidence rates (cases/100,000 pop.) to develop...

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The catalytic boost of critical mass usage of the World Wide Web (WWW) has brought about the shift in the traditional geographic information systems (GIS) paradigm and engendered new challenges and opportunities. The traditional GIS paradigm involves the use of huge databases and large expensive GIS software packages confined to local disks. The new paradigm, however, enables geospatial data to...

We present a method that uses GeoWordNet for Geographical Information Retrieval. During the indexing phase, all places are disambiguated and assigned their coordinates on the world map. Documents are first searched for by means of a term-based search method, and then re-ranked according to the geographical information. The results show that map-based re-ranking allows to improve the results obt...

Integration and interoperability is a basic requirement for geographic information systems (GIS). The web provides access to geographic data in several ways: on the one hand, web-based interactive GIS applications provide maps and routing information to end users; on the other hand, the data of some GIS can be accessed in a programmatic way using a web service. Thereby, the data is made availab...