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| Author: | Ahas, R. (et al.) |
| Title: | Evaluating passive mobile positioning data for tourism surveys: An Estonian case study |
| Journal: | Tourism Management
2008 : JUN, VOL. 29:3, p. 469-486 |
| Index terms: | tourism estonia |
| Freeterms: | mobile positioning |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | This article examines the applicability of passive mobile positioning data in studying tourism. Passive mobile positioning data is automatically stored in the memory files of mobile operators. This study uses database of the locations of roaming (foreign phones) call activities in network cells. This article describes the peculiarities of data, data gathering, sampling the handling of the spatial database and some analysis methods, using examples from Estonia. The results indicate that mobile positioning data has valuable applications for geographical studies. Positioning data has many advantages. The weaknesses of the data are related to problems with accessing data. |
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