DO-ROAM: activity-oriented search and navigation with OpenStreetMap

  • Authors:
  • Mihai Codescu;Gregor Horsinka;Oliver Kutz;Till Mossakowski;Rafaela Rau

  • Affiliations:
  • DFKI GmbH Bremen;DFKI GmbH Bremen;Research Center on Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Germany;DFKI GmbH Bremen and Research Center on Spatial Cognition, University of Bremen, Germany;DFKI GmbH Bremen

  • Venue:
  • GeoS'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on GeoSpatial semantics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We develop a web service focusing on finding places not (only) by their address, but by systematically relating the places to activities that a person could perform there. This is helpful if a person wants to explore a new city, or plans leisure activities. OpenStreetMap provides a rich set of tags that can be used for activity-oriented search. We propose the use of several ontologies that are related to each other using matching tools to cope with the evolving nature of the tags available in social media.