TWEET DATA EXTRACTOR FOR CREATING A TWITTER TRAFFIC MAP MASHUP
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https://doi.org/10.11113/jt.v75.5280Keywords:
Twitter, map mashup, transportation planning, web data extractor, big dataAbstract
Over recent years, there has been a growth of interest in the use of social media including Facebook and Twitter by the authorities to share and updates current information to the general public. The technology has been used for a variety of purposes including traffic control and transportation planning. There is a concern that the use of new technologies, including social media will lead to data abundance that requires effective operational resources to interpret the big data. This paper proposes a tweet data extractor to extract the traffic tweet by the authority and visualise the reports and mash up on top of online map, namely Twitter map. Visualisation of traffic tweet on a map could assist a user to effectively interpret the text based Twitter report by a location based map viewer. Hence, it could ease the process of planning itinerary by the road users.Â
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