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In the last few years, driven by the increased availability of geo-referenced data from social media, embedded sensors, and remote sensing images, various techniques have become popular for land use analysis. In this paper, we first highlight and discuss the different data types and methods usually adopted in this context, as well as their purposes. Then, based on a systematic state-of-the-art study, we focused on exploring the potential of points of interest (POIs) for land use classification, as one of the most common categories of crowdsourced data. We developed an application to automatically collect POIs for the study area, creating a dataset that was used to generate a large number of features. We used a ranking technique to select, among them, the most suitable features for classifying land use. As ground truth data, we used CORINE Land Cover (CLC), which is a solid and reliable dataset available for the whole European territory. It was used an artificial neural network (ANN) in different scenarios and our results reveal values of more than 90% for the accuracy and F-score in one experiment performed. Our analysis suggests that POI data have promising potential to characterize geographic spaces. The work described here aims to provide an alternative to the current methodologies for land use and land cover (LULC) classification, which are usually time-consuming and depend on expensive data types.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ijgi9090493","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]],"date-time":"2020-08-20T09:35:31Z","timestamp":1597916131000},"page":"493","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":88,"title":["POI Mining for Land Use Classification: A Case Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5814-0458","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Renato","family":"Andrade","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre of Informatics and Systems (CISUC), University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (ISEC), Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Coimbra, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-3692-338X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ana","family":"Alves","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre of Informatics and Systems (CISUC), University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal"},{"name":"Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra (ISEC), Instituto Polit\u00e9cnico de Coimbra, 3030-199 Coimbra, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Carlos","family":"Bento","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Centre of Informatics and Systems (CISUC), University of Coimbra, 3030-290 Coimbra, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2020,8,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"194","DOI":"10.1016\/j.sbspro.2016.06.062","article-title":"Smart Growth, Smart City and Density: In Search of The Appropriate Indicator for Residential Density in Indonesia","volume":"227","author":"Susanti","year":"2016","journal-title":"Procedia-Soc. 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