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Exploring and visualizing differences in geographic and linguistic web coverage / Ramya Venkateswaran in Transactions in GIS, vol 18 n° 6 (December 2014)  

Public [article]  inTransactions in GIS > vol 18 n° 6 (December 2014) . - pp 852 – 876 Titre : Exploring and visualizing differences in geographic and linguistic web coverage Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Ramya Venkateswaran, Auteur ; Robert Weibel, Auteur ; Ross S. Purves, Auteur Année de publication : 2014 Article en page(s) : pp 852 – 876 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Vedettes matières IGN] Géomatique web [Termes IGN] couverture (données géographiques) [Termes IGN] densité de population [Termes IGN] exploration de données [Termes IGN] information géographique [Termes IGN] langage naturel (informatique) [Termes IGN] Suisse [Termes IGN] visualisation de données Résumé : (Auteur) This article reports on a study performed to understand the geographic and linguistic coverage of web resources, focusing on the example of tourism-related themes in Switzerland. Search engine queries of web documents were used to gather counts for phrases in four different languages. The study focused on selected populated places and tourist attractions in Switzerland from three gazetteer datasets: topographic gazetteer data from the Swiss national mapping agency (SwissTopo); POI data from a commercial data provider (Tele Atlas) and user generated geographic content (geonames.org). The web counts illustrate the geographic extent and trends of web coverage of tourism for different languages. Results show that coverage for local languages, i.e. German, French and Italian, is more strongly related to the region of the spoken language. Correlation of the web counts to typical tourism indicators, e.g. population and number of hotel nights rented per year, are also computed and compared. Numéro de notice : A2014-574 Affiliation des auteurs : non IGN Thématique : GEOMATIQUE Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1111/tgis.12071 Date de publication en ligne : 27/01/2014 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12071 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=74764 [article]