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Gazetteer Research Overview

My research to improve and explain the completeness and accuracy associated with gazetteers.

So what, this has already been done many times? Good point. But existing gazetteers....

  • Are not complete

    • The features they contain are low resolution
    • They contain sparse features

  • Are not accurate

    • Information about the names, types and footprints are not accurate
    • The accuracy of each axis is unknown

  • Are too static

    • Information is not updated in real-time

Related Publications

  • 2009. Goldberg, D.W., Wilson, J.P., Knoblock, C.A. Extracting geographic Features from the internet to automatically build detailed regional gazetteers. International Journal of Geographic Information Science. In press.
  • 2008. Goldberg, D.W., Wilson, J.P., Knoblock, C.A. Exploring the Use of Gazetteers and Geocoders for the Analysis and Interpretation of a Dynamically Changing World. In Hornsby, K.S. and Yuan, M. (eds.) Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, Chapter 4, pp. 51-76.
  • 2007. A Mediator Based Method for Iterative Gazetteer Generation. Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, CA. Specialty Group 2007 Honors Competition for Student Papers on GIS. 2nd Place Winner. Abstract, slides.

Related Data

  • Ultra-high resolution gazetteer for Los Angeles County

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