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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.10
Geovicla: Automated Classification of Interactive Web-Based Geovisualizations

Authors: Phil Hüffer, Auriol Degbelo, and Benjamin Risse

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 346, 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025)

Abstract
The exponential growth of interactive geovisualizations on the Web has underscored the need for automated techniques to enhance their findability. In this paper, we present the Geovicla dataset (2.5K instances), constructed through the harvesting and manual labelling of webpages from a broad range of domains. The webpages are categorized into three groups: "interactive visualisation", "interactive geovisualisation" and "`no interactive visualisation". Using this dataset, we compared three approaches for interactive (geo)visualization classification: (i) a heuristic-based approach (i.e. using manually derived rules), (ii) a feature-engineering approach (i.e. hand-crafted feature vectors combined with machine learning classifiers) and (iii) an embedding-based approach (i.e. automatically generated large language model (LLM) embeddings with machine learning classifiers). The results indicate that LLM embeddings, when used in conjunction with a multilayer perceptron, form a promising combination, achieving up to 74% accuracy for multiclass classification and 75% for binary classification. The dataset and the insights gained from our empirical comparison offer valuable resources for GIScience researchers aiming to enhance the discoverability of interactive geovisualizations.
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Phil Hüffer, Auriol Degbelo, and Benjamin Risse. Geovicla: Automated Classification of Interactive Web-Based Geovisualizations. In 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 346, pp. 10:1-10:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{huffer_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.10,
  author =	{H\"{u}ffer, Phil and Degbelo, Auriol and Risse, Benjamin},
  title =	{{Geovicla: Automated Classification of Interactive Web-Based Geovisualizations}},
  booktitle =	{13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025)},
  pages =	{10:1--10:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-378-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{346},
  editor =	{Sila-Nowicka, Katarzyna and Moore, Antoni and O'Sullivan, David and Adams, Benjamin and Gahegan, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.10},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-238397},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.10},
  annote =	{Keywords: spatial information search, geovisualization search, findable interactive geovisualization, webpage classification}
}
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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.13
Assessing Map Reproducibility with Visual Question-Answering: An Empirical Evaluation

Authors: Eftychia Koukouraki, Auriol Degbelo, and Christian Kray

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 346, 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025)

Abstract
Reproducibility is a key principle of the modern scientific method. Maps, as an important means of communicating scientific results in GIScience and across disciplines, should be reproducible. Currently, map reproducibility assessment is done manually, which makes the assessment process tedious and time-consuming, ultimately limiting its efficiency. Hence, this work explores the extent to which Visual Question-Answering (VQA) can be used to automate some tasks relevant to map reproducibility assessment. We selected five state-of-the-art vision language models (VLMs) and followed a three-step approach to evaluate their ability to discriminate between maps and other images, interpret map content, and compare two map images using VQA. Our results show that current VLMs already possess map-reading capabilities and demonstrate understanding of spatial concepts, such as cardinal directions, geographic scope, and legend interpretation. Our paper demonstrates the potential of using VQA to support reproducibility assessment and highlights the outstanding issues that need to be addressed to achieve accurate, trustworthy map descriptions, thereby reducing the time and effort required by human evaluators.
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Eftychia Koukouraki, Auriol Degbelo, and Christian Kray. Assessing Map Reproducibility with Visual Question-Answering: An Empirical Evaluation. In 13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 346, pp. 13:1-13:12, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2025)

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@InProceedings{koukouraki_et_al:LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.13,
  author =	{Koukouraki, Eftychia and Degbelo, Auriol and Kray, Christian},
  title =	{{Assessing Map Reproducibility with Visual Question-Answering: An Empirical Evaluation}},
  booktitle =	{13th International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIScience 2025)},
  pages =	{13:1--13:12},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-378-2},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2025},
  volume =	{346},
  editor =	{Sila-Nowicka, Katarzyna and Moore, Antoni and O'Sullivan, David and Adams, Benjamin and Gahegan, Mark},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.13},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-238426},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.GIScience.2025.13},
  annote =	{Keywords: map comparison, computational reproducibility, visual question answering, large language models, GeoAI}
}
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