MarcoPolo: a community system for sharing and integrating travel information on maps

  • Authors:

  • Yueguo Chen;Su Chen;Yu Gu;Mei Hui;Feng Li;Chen Liu;Liangxu Liu;Beng Chin Ooi;Xiaoyan Yang;Dongxiang Zhang;Yuan Zhou

  • Affiliations:

  • National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;Northeastern University, China;National University of Singapore, Singapore;Fudan University, China;National University of Singapore, Singapore;Donghua University, China;National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore;National University of Singapore, Singapore

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The tagging technique has been widely applied in existing Web 2.0 systems, where users label resources with tags for effective classification and efficient retrieval of resources. Location-aware geographical tags (geo-tags) are required if users want to mark location-sensitive resources to digital maps. Large volumes of different kinds of user-created tags pose challenges to the effective organization of community resources using tags. Issues such as guaranteeing the quality of tags and supporting various tag-based queries emerge. In this demo, we present MarcoPolo, a Web 2.0 community system that allows users to define the hierarchical textual geo-tags and mark resources to a map using geo-tags. Statistical and feedback mechanisms are applied to guarantee the quality of tags (including geo-tags). The MarcoPolo system provides two effective interfaces for users to browse and search resources: one is the keyword-based interface and the other is the map-based interface.