Examples of secondary online data for raising awareness about geo and mining heritage Csaba SIDOR 1* , Branislav KRŠÁK 2, Ľubomír ŠTRBA 3, Ján GAJDOŠ 4, 5 6 Adriana ŠEBEŠOVÁ and Jana KOLA ČKOVSKÁ Authors’ affiliations and addresses: Abstract 1,2,3,4,5,6 Department of Geo and Mining Tourism, The paper analyzes the potential of secondary spatial data and Institute of Earth Resources, Faculty BERG, Technical University of Košice, online user-generated content. Special focus is dedicated to social Letná 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia networks and travel platforms, respectively their open application e-mail :
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[email protected] 6 social network Facebook, the hybrid map service Google Plac es and the travelers' application Foursquare was used for constructing the *Correspondence: Csaba Sidor, Department of Geo and Mining current partial online image of the Zemplín geopark as a selected Tourism, Institute of Earth Resources, Faculty example area with a higher density of geosites and objects of BERG, Technical University of Košice, Letná mining heritage. Subsequently, based on the pilot res ults, the 9, 042 00 Košice, Slovakia, harvested data's suitability was analyzed for both tourism services' Tel.: +421 55 602 3298 e-mail :
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