Synonyms
Glossary
- GPS:
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Global Positioning System, a satellite-based navigation system that provides location and time almost anywhere near the Earth's surface
- VGI:
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Volunteered geographic information, a type of user-generated content with a spatial component (Goodchild 2007)
- Flickr:
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A popular photo-sharing website allowing people to upload and share photos that may be tagged with location
- Twitter:
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A popular microblogging and social networking service that supports sending text messages (which are called tweets) of less than 140 characters. Tweets may be associated with location
- Spatial Interaction Models:
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Models describing interaction between two locations as a variable dependent on distance
Definition
Spatiotemporal footprints discussed in this chapter are locational and temporal information regarding people's occurrences that are digitally recorded. Spatial location may be automatically captured as latitude and...
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Li, L., Goodchild, M.F. (2014). Spatiotemporal Footprints in Social Networks. In: Alhajj, R., Rokne, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Social Network Analysis and Mining. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6170-8_322
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