Transforming Social Media Indicators into Thematic Geospatial Datasets for Public Health Geomonitoring

GIS Technologies and AI for Decision-Making and Management

Authors

First and Last Name Academic degree E-mail Affiliation
Mykola Kovalenko Ph.D. kovalenko_mar-2024 [at] knuba.edu.ua kovalenko_mar-2024@knuba.edu.ua
Kyiv National University of Construction and Architecture, Ukraine

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First published on this website: 27.08.2026 - 16:09
Abstract 

Geotagged social media posts and volunteered geographic information supply situational observations for public health geomonitoring and decision support systems. Raw records arrive as unstructured text or unevenly distributed coordinate tags. Positional uncertainty and the absence of standardized lineage description limit their direct entry into a geoinformation workflow.

The method formalizes the transformation of social media indicators into a thematic geospatial dataset in the state geodetic reference coordinate system UCS-2000. Input messages are treated as signals typed by spatial role; geocoding proceeds from native coordinates or, through a gazetteer and geospatial artificial intelligence tools, from text alone.

Conversion rules turn a primary signal into a spatial object: the admissible spatial representation follows from the geocoding outcome and the recorded level of spatial uncertainty. Every object carries a uniform mandatory attribute set. The resulting dataset is positioned for compatibility with base geospatial data and serves as an input layer for spatial overlay and subsequent analysis.

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