title: Assigning Textual Names to Sets of Geographic Coordinates
creator: Naaman, Mor
creator: Song, Yee Jiun
creator: Paepcke, Andreas
creator: Garcia-Molina, Hector
subject: Digital Libraries
description: NameSet is a system that translates a set of geographic coordinates into a textual name based on the geographic regions where the coordinates occur. One possible application of NameSet is to concisely present the geographical scope of a set of geo-referenced observations to a human user. Another application is to generate text to depict a set of coordinates that appear on a web site -- text that could later be used for information retrieval applications. NameSet's computation is based on a simple algorithm, using off-the-shelf and web-based data sources. The system was proven effective in an application that automatically organizes and names sets of geo-referenced digital photographs. 
publisher: Stanford InfoLab
date: 2005
type: Techreport
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/681/1/2005-18.pdf
identifier: Naaman, Mor and Song, Yee Jiun and Paepcke, Andreas and Garcia-Molina, Hector (2005) Assigning Textual Names to Sets of Geographic Coordinates. Technical Report. Stanford InfoLab. (Publication Note: Journal of Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 30(4):418--435 (July 2006). )
relation: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/681/