For my doctoral school course on Information Retrieval taught by Ricardo Baeza-Yates, I wrote a paper on the geospatial web entitled:

The Geospatial Web, State of the Art and Implications on Web Search

Abstract. The world-wide web has become virtually ubiquitous. We assume we can learn anything about everything. Moving towards a post-PC era filled with mobile services, massively radio-frequency identifiable objects and wide wireless network coverage we expect the web to be everywhere. Indeed, the physical world is being tagged with location-coordinates and accessible for the asking on the web. This combination of digitalized physical information with web-wide hypermedia (web pages, video, audio, …) has been coined as the Geospatial web. “What is that monument?” and “where is my dog?” belong to the new set of “geo-localized” search queries. This paper covers the state of the art of the geospatial web and discusses the implications on web searching.

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