Abstract. User Oriented Geographical Information Systems, a recent adaptation of classical GIS concepts to everyday usage, are becoming more and more present in the web landscape. Recent developments show the need of adding higher semantic levels to the existing frameworks, to improve their usage, as well as to ease scalability. We point out limits of actual examples, related to handling hetero...

Automated inspection systems utilizing computer vision technology are effective in managing traffic control devices (TCDs); however, they face challenges due to the limited availability of training datasets and difficulty generating new datasets. To address this, our study establishes a benchmark for cost-effective model methods that achieve desired accuracy using data from related domains YOLO...

This paper reports about a study to analyse the Internet diffusion in Italy by Italian firms, using domain names under the .it ccTLD as metric. The penetration rate calculated according to the number of companies 1 is computed for highly dissimilar geographical areas (regions). A concentration analysis was performed in order to discover whether the geographical distribution of the Internet is l...

The presence of third-party tracking on websites has become customary. However, our understanding of the thirdparty ecosystem is still very rudimentary. We examine thirdparty trackers from a geographical perspective, observing the third-party tracking ecosystem from 29 countries across the globe. When examining the data by region (North America, South America, Europe, East Asia, Middle East, an...

This paper analyzes Internet diffusion among organizations, based on daily observation of the registration of second level domain names under the “.it” ccTLD. In particular, we analyzed domains registered in the nonprofit sector. The penetration rate in the relevant population of potential users is computed at highly separated geographical levels (regions). A concentration analysis was carried ...

Geo-spatial applications need to provide powerful search capabilities to support users in their daily activities. However, discovery services are often limited by only syntactically matching user terminology to metadata describing geographical resources. We report our work on the implementation of a geographical catalogue, and corresponding semantic extension, for the spatial data infrastructur...

Many documents that can be found in the World Wide Web include some kind of geographical information, often in an implicit way. The use of resources like gazetteers and geographical ontologies can improve the results in Geographical Information Retrieval. Unfortunately, the construction of such ontologies is a long and laborious process; therefore, building an ontology in a semi-automatical way...

a place-name or a toponym is a word used to indicate, denote or identify a geographic locality. place-names are formed in the course of history of a region and are affected by various linguistic, social, political and cultural events. toponymy is the taxonomic study of place-names, based on etymological, historical and geographical information. this paper first defines toponym and topnymy and i...

Currently, implementations of the Collaborative Filtering (CF) algorithm are mostly centralized. Hence, information about the users, for example, product ratings, is concentrated in a single location. In this work we propose a novel approach to overcome the inherent limitations of CF (sparsity of data and cold start) by exploiting multiple distributed information repositories. These may belong ...