Abstract
With the World Wide Web, people have access to more tourism information than ever before. However, too much information from too many sources has caused an information overload. Accessing information on the Internet has become less a question of determining whether the information is out there, but rather, in what form, and how to find it. Tourists have problems to find what they are looking for, especially in reference to the geographic position of the object and its surroundings. In most cases it is not satisfying to find a nice hotel without a reference to restaurants, sights or event locations located nearby. The approach presented in this paper starts from the user needs, to present the tourism object in geographic context on interactive tourist maps in SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) the upcoming standard for two dimensional vector graphics in the Web. Maps cope with the two dimensional capabilities of human vision and present the information in a compact and easy to read way.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | The Fourth International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications and Services (iiWAS2002) |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2002 |
Fields of science
- 102001 Artificial intelligence
- 102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
- 102010 Database systems
- 102014 Information design
- 102015 Information systems
- 102016 IT security
- 102028 Knowledge engineering
- 102019 Machine learning
- 102022 Software development
- 102025 Distributed systems
- 502007 E-commerce
- 505002 Data protection
- 506002 E-government
- 509018 Knowledge management
- 202007 Computer integrated manufacturing (CIM)
- 102033 Data mining
- 102035 Data science
