Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems

This volume contains the extended papers selected for presentation at the ninth edition of the International Symposium on Web & Wireless Geographical Information Systems 2 (WGIS 2009) hosted by the National Centre for Geocomputation in NUI Maynooth 2 (Ireland). WGIS 2009 was the ninth in a series of successful events beginning with Kyoto 2001, and alternating locations between East Asia and Europe. We invited s- missions that provided an up-to-date review of advances in theoretical, technical, and 2 practical issues of W GIS and Intelligent GeoMedia. Reports on ongoing implemen- tions and real-world applications research were particularly welcome at this symposium. 2 Now in its ninth year, the scope of W GIS has expanded to include continuing - vances in wireless and Internet technologies that generate ever increasing interest in the diffusion, usage, and processing of geo-referenced data of all types - geomedia. Spatially aware wireless and Internet devices offer new ways of accessing and anal- ing geo-spatial information in both real-world and virtual spaces. Consequently, new challenges and opportunities are provided that expand the traditional GIS research scope into the realm of intelligent media including geomedia with context-aware behaviors for self-adaptive use and delivery. Our common aim is research-based innovation that increases the ease of creating, delivering, and using geomedia across different platforms and application domains that continue to have dramatic effect on today's society.

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Web and Wirelsss Geographical Information Systems, W2GIS 2009, held in Maynooth, Ireland, in December 2009. The 12 revised full papers presented together with two invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions.

The papers span a wide area including but not limited from geospatial analysis and personalization and semantic geo-spatial web to W2GIS case studies and web and mobile applications and prototypes.

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Invited Talk.- Database and Representation Issues in Geographic Information Systems (GIS).- Session 1 Geospatial Analysis.- Moving Phenomenon: Aggregation and Analysis of Geotime-Tagged Contents on the Web.- GeoPW: Towards the Geospatial Processing Web.- Session 2 Personalization and Semantic Geo-spatial Web.- Towards an Integration of Space and Accessibility in Web Personalization.- Tiled Vectors: A Method for Vector Transmission over the Web.- Semantic Challenges for Sensor Plug and Play.- Session 3 W2GIS Case Studies.- Providing Universal Access to History Textbooks: A Modified GIS Case.- Data Integration GeoService: A First Proposed Approach Using Historical Geographic Data.- A Study of Spatial Interaction Behaviour for Improved Delivery of Web-Based Maps.- Session 4 Web and Mobile Applications and Prototypes.- EgoViz A Mobile Based Spatial Interaction System.- Wired Fisheye Lens: A Motion-Based Improved Fisheye Interface for Mobile Web Map Services.- Automatic Generation of an Adaptive WebGIS.- Campus Guidance System for International Conferences Based on OpenStreetMap.