%0 Report
%9 Technical Report
%A Naaman, Mor
%A Song, Yee Jiun
%A Paepcke, Andreas
%A Garcia-Molina, Hector
%D 2005
%F ilprints:681
%I Stanford InfoLab
%K geo-referenced data, named locations, information retrieval, gazetteers, photographs
%T Assigning Textual Names to Sets of Geographic Coordinates
%U http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/681/
%X 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.