Publicado por María Elena Alvarado
01/06/2009
Partnered by the Instituto Geográfico Nacional (IGN), researchers from the Ontology Engineering Group at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid's School of Computing and the Universidad de Santiago de Compostela's Intelligent Systems Group have developed a software application that will provide a range of geomatic services for Camino de Santiago de Compostela (St. Jacques' Way) pilgrims and allow them to share information with other users anytime and anyplace through social networking over their mobile phones. The application is based on a platform (GeoBuddies) implementing algorithms for the following aspects: * Integration of ontology-based information, which will be used to harmonize the multilingual and heterogeneous databases provided by the IGN. * Social annotation of re...