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Merging Volunteered Geographic Information Systems
2023This project determines how two different systems based on geographic user-generated content can work together to allow the content to be made more accessible. This project’s objective is to determine the technical and social issues involved with allowing information to be transferred between systems.
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Tracking via Volunteered Geographic Information
2020Over the past 20 years, the use of location-based tracking has become increasingly popular. The introduction of GPS technology into devices such as phones and watches, and its incorporation into tracking apps, has led to widespread use of apps which track activities, particularly those of a sporting nature. There are now over 318,000 health and fitness
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Assessment of volunteered geographic information for vegetation mapping
Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 2020Vegetation mapping requires extensive field data for training and validation. Volunteered geographic information in the form of geotagged photos of identified plants has the potential to serve as a supplemental data source for vegetation mapping projects.
Kellie A. Uyeda +2 more
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Photo Based Volunteered Geographic Information Initiatives
International Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Information Systems, 2014Volunteered Geographic Information has become exponentially available over the Web in the last years. This availability can hide a vast geographical richness and provides us with both a great opportunity to explore new ways to use it and also big challenges related with its unstructured nature. This paper conducts a preliminary analysis of the adequacy
Jacinto Estima, Marco Painho
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The credibility of volunteered geographic information
GeoJournal, 2008The proliferation of information sources as a result of networked computers and other interconnected devices has prompted significant changes in the amount, availability, and nature of geographic information. Among the more significant changes is the increasing amount of readily available volunteered geographic information.
Andrew J. Flanagin, Miriam J. Metzger
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From Volunteered Geographic Information to Volunteered Geographic Services
2012Volunteered geographic information refers to a range of geo-collaboration projects in which individuals voluntarily collect, maintain, and visualize information. This chapter introduces the related, but distinct, concept of volunteered geographic services (VGS).
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Volunteered Geographic Information
Geography, 2014Doreen S. Boyd, Giles M. Foody
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Legal issues with volunteered geographic information
Canadian Geographies / Géographies canadiennes, 2012Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a relatively new and rapidly developing activity with varying degrees of organization and legal sophistication that involves host sites, contributors, and users. VGI related activities raise a variety of legal issues, from intellectual property to liability, defamation, and privacy.
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Integrating and Generalising Volunteered Geographic Information
2014The availability of spatial data on the web has greatly increased through the availability of user-generated community data and geosensor networks. The integration of such multi-source data is providing promising opportunities, as integrated information is richer than can be found in only one data source, but also poses new challenges due to the ...
Monika Sester +4 more
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Quality Evaluation of Volunteered Geographic Information
2017A large amount of crowd-sourced geospatial data have been created in recent years due to the interactivity of Web 2.0 and the availability of Global Positioning System (GPS). This geo-information is typically referred to as volunteered geographic information (VGI).
Hongyu Zhang, Jacek Malczewski
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