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Spatial information retrieval (SIR) refers to providing access to georeferenced sources by indexing, searching, retrieving, and browsing (Larson 1996). SIR is an interdisciplinary topic involving geospatial information science, data mining, computer networks, cognition, and cartography. An example of SIR query could be “Where are the Italian restaurants within 500 meters of a specific park?” Fig. 1a illustrates the spatial distribution around the park: the shaded area represents the park; triangles represent restaurants; the red triangles represent those providing Italian food. To answer the question, spatial entities, such as restaurants and the park, are abstracted to a point described in [x, y] coordinates. To execute the query, both an information retrieval algorithm and spatial relationship analysis are needed: (1) locate the area of interest where a circle has a radium of...
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Li, W., Yang, P., Zhou, B. (2017). Internet-Based Spatial Information Retrieval. In: Shekhar, S., Xiong, H., Zhou, X. (eds) Encyclopedia of GIS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17885-1_650
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