GPS tracklogs provide a valuable record of routes travelled. In this paper we describe initial experiments exploring the use of text information retrieval techniques for the location of similar trips from within a GPS tracklog. We performed the experiment on a dataset of 528 individual trips gathered over a seven month time period from a single user. The results of our preliminary study suggest that traditional text-based information retrieval techniques can indeed be used to locate similar and related tracklogs.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
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Workshop
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Yes
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Workshop held in conjunction with SIGIR 2006 - Conference on Research and Development on Information Retrieval