GeoAlign 
Points of interest (POI) are central in many applications such as tourism, itinerary search, crisis management. Cartographic providers usually represent these POI with a spatial entity. However, the description of these entities may significantly vary from one provider to another (e.g., missing properties, outdated information, conflicting values). Spatial entity matching (or record linkage) aims at detecting correspondences between entities referring to the same POI. Most existing approaches have a fixed function for combining similarity measures, thus limiting customization. Besides, evaluating the matching quality is a difficult task since a ground truth dataset cannot be built for all entities and providers. GeoAlign is a web application that allows fine-grained tuning for spatial entity matching. A merging step is also provided using different strategies. It is also able to estimate the quality of correspondences based on the differences between combination functions and to visualize this estimation.
Related publications
- Spatial Entity Matching with GeoAlign
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL), 2019
Nelly Barret and Fabien Duchateau and Franck Favetta and Ludovic Moncla@inproceedings {sigspatial19demo,
author = {Nelly Barret and Fabien Duchateau and Franck Favetta and Ludovic Moncla},
title = {Spatial Entity Matching with GeoAlign},
booktitle = {International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL)},
year = {2019},
pages = {580–583},
publisher = {ACM},
ee = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3347146.3359345},
}
Prototype
- Try our web application GeoAlign directly online.
- You can also watch the demonstration video below.
Screenshots
