To separate or not to separate: reflections about GIR practice
Nuno Cardoso, Diana Santos · Portuguese National Funding Agency for Science, Research and Technology (RCAAP Project by FCT) · 2008
Most geographical information retrieval (GIR) systems separate the treatment of the geographical and the non-geographical part, often called "thematic".In this paper, we provide an overview of this practice, and we advance arguments for and against.We also show some experimental results that apparently substantiate the non-separation argument.We conclude with the recommendation that this practice should receive more attention by the GIR community.