See the world with themexplorer

ABSTRACT

We demonstrate ThemExplorer¹:, a mash-up for geographic image retrieval. The application combines: Geonames, a geographic thesaurus; TagMaps, a tool for visualizing tags on a map; PIRIA - a visual search engine, and pictures collected from Flickr and Google images. The user can query ThemExplorer using both keywords and example images.

REFERENCES

• 1: Shane Ahern , Mor Naaman , Rahul Nair , Jeannie Hui-I Yang, World explorer: visualizing aggregate data from unstructured text in geo-referenced collections, Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, June 18-23, 2007, Vancouver, BC, Canada [doi>10.1145/1255175.1255177]

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Search process

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Selection process

General Terms:
Algorithms, Experimentation

Keywords:
geonames, image retrieval, interface, mash-up, thesaurus