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This paper examines the spatial arrangement of social and economic networks among villages in Nang Ž . Rong district, Thailand. We use spatial information from a geographic information system GIS for the Ž . district to help interpret the patterns of movement of agricultural equipment large tractors between villages, of people into villages for temporary labor, and of people to village temples ...

Text mining and search have become important research areas over the past few years, mostly due to the large popularity of the Web. A natural extension for these technologies is the development of methods for exploring the geographic context of Web information. Human information needs often present specific geographic constraints. Many Web documents also refer to specific locations. However, re...

In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search engines provide a flexible interface to the Web that allows users to constrain and order search results in an intuitive manner, by focusing a query on a particular geographic region. Geographic search technology has rece...