Report on requirement analysis and design of PAUSANIAS

Abstract

Nowadays an increasing amount of web-accessible information on spatial objects becomes available to the public every day. Apart from the spatial location of an object (e.g., a point of interest), additional descriptive information typically includes textual description as well as various ratings, often user generated. Modern applications employ spatio-textual queries, which take into account both the spatial location of an object and its textual similarity to retrieve the most relevant objects. However, existing applications provide a limited functionality to the users. For example, several meaningful queries cannot be expressed by existing approaches and motivate our novel prototype system. The goal of our research is to introduce a novel framework, called Pausanias, for supporting ranked spatial-keyword search over web-accessible geotagged data. In this deliverable, we provide an analysis of requirements that should be fulfilled by the proposed prototype and a concise description of the system design of Pausanias.