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Volunteered Geographical Information and Digital Social Networks applied to Tourism Dynamics in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” (UNESCO world Heritage Site)
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: Received: 18 February 2019 / Approved: 19 February 2019 / Online: 19 February 2019 (10:24:18 CET)
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Santos, J.; Azevedo, L.; Patriarca, J.; Leitão, L. Volunteered Geographical Information and Digital Social Networks applied to Tourism Dynamics in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” (UNESCO world Heritage Site). Preprints2019, 2019020171. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201902.0171.v1
Santos, J.; Azevedo, L.; Patriarca, J.; Leitão, L. Volunteered Geographical Information and Digital Social Networks applied to Tourism Dynamics in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” (UNESCO world Heritage Site). Preprints 2019, 2019020171. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201902.0171.v1
Santos, J.; Azevedo, L.; Patriarca, J.; Leitão, L. Volunteered Geographical Information and Digital Social Networks applied to Tourism Dynamics in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” (UNESCO world Heritage Site). Preprints2019, 2019020171. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201902.0171.v1
APA Style
Santos, J., Azevedo, L., Patriarca, J., & Leitão, L. (2019). Volunteered Geographical Information and Digital Social Networks applied to Tourism Dynamics in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” (UNESCO world Heritage Site). Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201902.0171.v1
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Santos, J., Joaquim Patriarca and Luis Leitão. 2019 "Volunteered Geographical Information and Digital Social Networks applied to Tourism Dynamics in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” (UNESCO world Heritage Site)" Preprints. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201902.0171.v1
Abstract
Spatial modeling in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) always involves choices. The existence of constraints, either of a financial nature or related to the specifics of the software itself, to the algorithms, the uncertainty and even the reliability of the data, the purposes and the applications of the studies, make this a kind of guiding compass for GIS analysts. Building on a previous exercise of data acquisition (check-ins) based on two Digital Social Networks (DSN — Facebook and Foursquare) and on the awareness of the use of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) generated by tourists sharing their topophilic ties through DSN, the present analysis aims to evaluate the contribution of modern techniques of spatial analysis applied to tourism in the “Alta and University of Coimbra” area. Concepts and procedural tasks related to density determination, cluster analysis and identification of patterns associated with regionalized variables have thus been implemented with the purpose of evaluating and comparing the results obtained through the application of two techniques of spatial analysis, Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) and Optimized Hot-Spot Analysis (OHSA) & Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) Interpolation.
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