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Motivating and Sustaining Participation in VGI [PDF]
, 2017 Volunteers are the key component in the collection of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), so what motivates their participation, what strategies work in recruitment and how sustainability of participation can be achieved are key questions that need
Brovelli, M., Fritz, S., See, L.
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Geo-Spatial Information Science, 2019 Crowdsourced data can effectively observe environmental and urban ecosystem processes. The use of data produced by untrained people into flood forecasting models may effectively allow Early Warning Systems (EWS) to better perform while support decision ...
Antonio Annis, Fernando Nardi
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GEOmedia, 2016 Availability of up-to-date geographic datasets, including the information voluntarily created by ordinary people, is crucial for disaster management in areas affected by catastrophic events and humanitarian crises. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the most popular
Flavio Lupia +4 more
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VGI and crowdsourced data credibility analysis using spam email detection techniques
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2018 Volunteered geographic information (VGI) can be considered a subset of crowdsourced data (CSD) and its popularity has recently increased in a number of application areas.
Saman Koswatte +2 more
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OpenStreetMap – building data completeness visualization in terms of “Fitness for purpose” [PDF]
Advances in Geodesy and Geoinformation, 2023 The purpose of this article was to provide the user with information about the number of buildings in the analyzed OpenStreetMap (OSM) dataset in the form of data completeness indicators, namely the standard OSM building areal completeness index (C Index)
Sylwia Borkowska +2 more
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A Risk-Based Approach for Enhancing the Fitness of Use of VGI
IEEE Access, 2022 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) phenomena offer an alternative or supplement to the authoritative mechanism of geospatial data acquisition. It allows people without professional geospatial skills or knowledge to participate in the geospatial ...
Tarek Sboui, Saida Aissi
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 One of the most important challenges of volunteered geographic information (VGI) is the quality assessment. Existing methods of VGI quality assessment, either assess the quality by comparing a reference map with the VGI map or deriving the quality from ...
Sepehr Honarparvar +3 more
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A VGI Quality Assessment Method for VGI based on Trustworthiness [PDF]
GI_Forum, 2016 Recent advances in technology have greatly transformed how geographic information is produced and have led to the phenomenon of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). VGI allows people with little geographical knowledge to contribute in the creation of maps and other kinds of geographic information.
Amir Masoud Forati, Farid Karimipour
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Geo-spatial Information Science, 2023 Geographical studies of outdoor activities have increased in recent years with the rise in popularity of these activities worldwide, including in Japan. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a key tool for organizing outdoor activities as it offers
Jun Yamashita +3 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Greece is one of the few European countries that has not yet a fully operating Cadastre at national coverage. Cadastral surveying and property registration have been completed only for about 8% of the Greek territory, which includes about 18% of the ...
George Mourafetis, Chryssy Potsiou
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