TY - GEN
T1 - Constructing places from spatial footprints
AU - Li, Linna
AU - Goodchild, Michael F.
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Place is an essential concept in human discourse. It is people's interaction and experience with their surroundings that identify place from non-place in space. This paper explores the use of spatial footprints as a record of human interaction with the environment. Specifically, we use geotagged photos collected in Flickr to provide a collective view of sense of place, in terms of significance and location. Spatial footprints associated with photographs can not only describe individual place locations and spatial extents but also the relationship between places, such as hierarchy. This type of information about place may be utilized to study the way people understand their landscape, or can be incorporated into existing gazetteers for geographic information retrieval and location-based services. Other sources of user-generated geographic information, such as Foursquare and Twitter, may also be harvested and aggregated to study place in a similar way.
AB - Place is an essential concept in human discourse. It is people's interaction and experience with their surroundings that identify place from non-place in space. This paper explores the use of spatial footprints as a record of human interaction with the environment. Specifically, we use geotagged photos collected in Flickr to provide a collective view of sense of place, in terms of significance and location. Spatial footprints associated with photographs can not only describe individual place locations and spatial extents but also the relationship between places, such as hierarchy. This type of information about place may be utilized to study the way people understand their landscape, or can be incorporated into existing gazetteers for geographic information retrieval and location-based services. Other sources of user-generated geographic information, such as Foursquare and Twitter, may also be harvested and aggregated to study place in a similar way.
KW - Flickr
KW - geotag
KW - place
KW - spatial footprints
KW - volunteered geographic information (VGI)
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U2 - 10.1145/2442952.2442956
DO - 10.1145/2442952.2442956
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875181765
SN - 9781450316941
T3 - GEOCROWD 2012 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information
SP - 15
EP - 21
BT - GEOCROWD 2012 - Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information
T2 - 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Crowdsourced and Volunteered Geographic Information, GEOCROWD 2012
Y2 - 6 November 2012 through 6 November 2012
ER -