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Discovering Tourist Attractions of Cities Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap Data

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Tourism is a growing industry which needs accurate management and planning. Photography and tourism are inseparable; Photographs play the role of tourists’ footprints during their visit to a touristic city. Nowadays, the large deployment of mobile devices and digital cameras has led to a massive increase in the volume of records of where people have been and when they were there. In this paper, we introduce a new method to automatically discover the touristic attractions of every single city with the use of two open-source platforms, Flickr and OpenStreetMap. We applied techniques to convert raw metadata of geotagged photos downloaded from Flickr to information about popular Points of Interest with the help of additional information retrieved from OpenStreetMap.

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Acknowledgements

The work and results reported in this paper are part of broader research in tourist movement analysis that I did during my Ph.D. at the University of Pisa, Italy. I want to thank Prof. Matwin who is one of the co-authors of this paper because of all his support and help alongside my own supervisors (Dr. Nanni and Prof. Pedreschi) to finish my Ph.D. and finalize this research.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Farzad Vaziri & Dino Pedreschi

  2. KDDLab, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

    Mirco Nanni

  3. Institute for Big Data Analytics, Halifax, Canada

    Stan Matwin

  4. Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Stan Matwin

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  1. Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Institute of Accounting and Admn, Polytechnic of Porto, S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

    António Abreu

  3. Institute of Accounting and Admn, Polytechnic of Porto, S. Mamede de Infesta, Portugal

    João Vidal de Carvalho

  4. School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto, Vila do Conde, Portugal

    Dália Liberato

  5. Business Administration and Tourism, University of Vigo, Ourense, Spain

    Elisa Alén González

  6. School of Hospitality and Tourism, Polytechnic of Porto, VILA DO CONDE, Portugal

    Pedro Liberato

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Vaziri, F., Nanni, M., Matwin, S., Pedreschi, D. (2020). Discovering Tourist Attractions of Cities Using Flickr and OpenStreetMap Data. In: Rocha, Á., Abreu, A., de Carvalho, J., Liberato, D., González, E., Liberato, P. (eds) Advances in Tourism, Technology and Smart Systems. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 171. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-2024-2_21

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