Visualizing Shooting Spots using Geo-tagged Photographs from Social Media Sites

Hotspots, at which many photographs have been taken, might be interesting places for many people to do sightseeing. Visualization of hotspots reveals user interests, which is important for industries such as tourism and marketing research. Although several social-based techniques for extracting hotspots independently have been proposed, a hotspot has a relation to other hotspots in some cases. To organize those hotspots, we propose a method to detect and visualize relations among hotspots. Our proposed method detects and assesses relations of shooting spots and photographic subjects. Our approach extracts the relations using sub-hotspots, which are split from a hotspot that includes photographs of different types. We demonstrate our approach by discovering relations using photographic metadata such as tags, photograph orientation, and photograph locations from Flickr.Meilleur Article Applicatif d\u27EGC\u27201

A Location Analytics Method for the Utilisation of Geotagged Photos in Travel Marketing Decision-Making

Location analytics offers statistical analysis of any geo- or spatial data concerning user location. Such analytics can produce useful insights into the attractions of interest to travellers or visitation patterns of a demographic group. Based on these insights, strategic decision-making by travel marketing agents, such as travel package design, may be improved. In this paper, we develop and evaluate an original method of location analytics to analyse travellers' social media data for improving managerial decision support. The method proposes an architectural framework that combines emerging pattern data mining techniques with image processing to identify and process appropriate data content. The design artefact is evaluated through a focus group and a detailed case study of Australian outbound travellers. The proposed method is generic, and can be applied to other specific locations or demographics to provide analytical outcomes useful for strategic decision support