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The credibility of volunteered geographic information [PDF]
GeoJournal, 2008 The 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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Assuring the quality of volunteered geographic information [PDF]
Spatial Statistics, 2012 Abstract Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a phenomenon of recent years, offering an alternative mechanism for the acquisition and compilation of geographic information. As such it offers substantial advantages, but suffers from a general lack of quality assurance.
Linna Li, Michael F. Goodchild
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Spaces of Volunteered Geographic Information
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013Open any recent geography article or book that discusses the internet and you will find the opening sentences replete with the terms ‘new’, ‘change’, ‘proliferation’ and ‘recent’. Apparently something is brewing in digital space that makes geographers very excited. Cliches aside, it is clear that many of the most recent additions to the online world (e.
Matthew Zook, Ate Poorthuis
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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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A Gamification Framework for Volunteered Geographic Information
2015Using crowdsourcing methods to gather large amounts of useful geodata presents many challenges. One challenge is to attract volunteers to participate in crowdsourcing activities. Several studies conclude that to encourage crowdsourcing it is necessary to take into account people’s intrinsic motivation (e.g. fun, altruism, ambition).
Martella, Roberta +2 more
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Automated geographic context analysis for volunteered information
Applied Geography, 2013Abstract Several studies show the impacts of (geo)social media and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) during crisis events, and have found intrinsic value for rescue teams, relief workers and humanitarian assistance coordinators, as well as the affected population.
Frank O. Ostermann, Laura Spinsanti
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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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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 ...
Jamal Jokar Arsanjani +4 more
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Fictional volunteered geographic information in Dream Cartography
International Journal of Cartography, 2017In the field of fictional and literary geography, the spatial information is conveyed through the power of words by one person: the author of the novel or, in the case of Dream Cartography, by the ...
Cristina M. Iosifescu Enescu +1 more
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