This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Geo Spatial Semantics, Geo S 2009, held in Mexico City, Mexico in December 2009. The 10 revised full papers presented together with 2 keynote speeches were carefully reviewed and selected from 19 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections foundations on geo-semantics; formal representation of geospatial data; semantics-based information retrieval and recommmender systems; integration of sematics into spatial query processing; and geo-ontologies and applications.
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Keynotes.- Multi-cultural Aspects of Spatial Knowledge.- Towards Reasoning Pragmatics.- Foundations of Geo-semantics.- A Functional Ontology of Observation and Measurement.- The Case for Grounding Databases.- Formal Representation of Geospatial Data.- Towards a Semantic Representation of Raster Spatial Data.- Bottom-Up Gazetteers: Learning from the Implicit Semantics of Geotags.- Semantics-Based Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems.- Ontology-Based Integration of Sensor Web Services in Disaster Management.- A Spatial User Similarity Measure for Geographic Recommender Systems.- Integration of Semantics into Spatial Query Processing.- SPARQL Query Re-writing Using Partonomy Based Transformation Rules.- i Rank: Ranking Geographical Information by Conceptual, Geographic and Topologic Similarity.- Geo-ontologies and Applications.- Towards an Ontology for Reef Islands.- Narrative Geospatial Knowledge in Ethnographies: Representation and Reasoning.