Recently, the demands on information services have been increasing significantly. This is mainly due to the popularization of computer and mobile telecommunication devices and the rapid improvements on wireless communication technology. Specially, information services and their corresponding management for mobile devices, such as Location Based Service (LBS) and Telematics, become more and more...

Thomas Gray, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Geographical Information Systems: A Literary GIS of Two Lake District Tours Ian N. Gregory and David Cooper Abstract: There have been growing calls to develop the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) across the humanities. For this shift to take place, two things must be demonstrated: firstly, that it is technically possible to create a useful G...

Geographical information systems (GIS) and statistical software can enhance their functionality using each other capabilities. This paper describes an environment for coupling the statistical program R and the GIS library TerraLib. The implementation uses and adapts the package aRT being the key aspect the fact that both applications share a database connection which is used for exchanging info...

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...

Since ancient times, men had the necessity to catch, model and store information. An important part of the information field is the one concerned with geographical and spatial matters. In general, geographic (or geospatial) information is created by manipulating geographic (or spatial) data. Nowadays, geospatial information can be stored, manipulated and queried within special informatics syste...

Information about places is ubiquitous in the study of history, events occur, people live, and phenomena flourish in more or less identifiable locations. To a greater or lesser extent, all historians make use of geographical information. Potentially, there is a great potential for the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the discipline. However, GIS with origins in the earth science...

The geographical information system (GIS) revolution started in the mid 1980s and has since snread to all countries of the world. A GIS is a comput&software package that is concerned with the capture, storage, manipulation, query, display and analysis of any and all types of geographical information, (BLJRROUGH, 1986; CHORLEY, 1987; LAURINI & THOMPSON, 1992; ESRI, 1993). There are now many diff...