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Developing a Workflow to Identify Inconsistencies in Volunteered Geographic Information: A Phenological Case Study. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2015
Recent improvements in online information communication and mobile location-aware technologies have led to the production of large volumes of volunteered geographic information. Widespread, large-scale efforts by volunteers to collect data can inform and
Hamed Mehdipoor   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016
Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information, sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative agencies.
Giles Foody   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

A Systems Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2014
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is geographic information collected by way of crowdsourcing. However, the distinction between VGI as an information product and the processes that create VGI is blurred.
Victoria Fast   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Assessing Completeness and Spatial Error of Features in Volunteered Geographic Information

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2013
The assessment of the quality and accuracy of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) contributions, and by extension the ultimate utility of VGI data has fostered much debate within the geographic community.
Andrew Crooks   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

A Framework for Scaling Urban Transformative Resilience through Utilizing Volunteered Geographic Information

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2022
Resilience in the urban context can be described as a continuum of absorptive, adaptive, and transformative capacities. The need to move toward a sustainable future and bounce forward after any disruption has led recent urban resilience initiatives to ...
Mahsa Moghadas   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Completeness of citizen science biodiversity data from a volunteered geographic information perspective

open access: yesGeo-Spatial Information Science, 2017
Observations of living organisms by citizen scientists that are reported to online portals are a valuable source of information. They are also a special kind of volunteered geographic information (VGI).
Alexander Zipf
exaly   +2 more sources

MEASURING THE SPATIAL SIMILARITIES IN VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023
Volunteered citizens have the potential to be used as social and distributed sensors, monitoring their surroundings and producing and sharing massive amounts of geographic data.
N. Mahmoody-Vanolya   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

THE VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION IN ARCHAEOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013
The purpose of the paper is to investigate the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), which is still at a very early stage, to identify its use worldwide including characteristic examples and research its potential applications in Cultural Heritage ...
S. Sylaiou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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