Proposal of a platform integrating POI information

With the spread of devices equipped with global position systems (GPSs), such as smartphones, location-based services (LBSs) that can provide point of interest (POI) information, such as hotels and restaurants, depending on the users´ location, have increased. LBSs currently face four challenges. First, users cannot get comprehensive information from a single service. Second, the attribute information for a POI varies with each service. Third, the description format of attribute information differs according to the LBSs and, fourth, incorrect information may be included in the information provided by the LBSs. In this research, we propose a platform for integrating POI information to address and solve the above four issues. With this platform, it is possible to output integrated information in resource description format (RDF) for use as Linked Open Data (LOD). In order to integrate information with respect to a POI, we also propose an identification method that uses address, phone number, and name attribute information. This system uses a string operation method with a POI name and a POI request method with a phone number. We conducted an evaluation experiment to ensure that our platform is effective for both methods depending on two inputted POIs. The evaluation experiment results were precision 1.0 and recall 0.91.