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Mining volunteered geographic information for predictive energy data analytics

Energy Informatics, 2018
Background Users create serious amounts of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Online platforms like OpenStreetMap or in real estate portals. Harvesting such data with the help of business analytics and machine learning methods yield promising ...
Konstantin Hopf
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Exploring Data Model Relations in OpenStreetMap

Future Internet, 2017
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) geographic data model has three principal object types: nodes (points), ways (polygons and polylines), and relations (logical grouping of all three object types to express real-world geographical relationships).
Hippolyte Pruvost, Peter Mooney
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The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique [PDF]

Geo: Geography and Environment, 2015
Numerous exegeses have been written about the epistemologies of volunteered geographic information (VGI). We contend that VGI is itself a socially constructed epistemology crafted in the discipline of geography, which when re‐examined, does not sit comfortably with either GIScience or critical GIS scholarship.
Sieber, RE, Haklay, M
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Volunteered Geographic Information System Design: Project and Participation Guidelines

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016
This article sets forth the early phases of a methodological proposal for designing and developing Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) initiatives based on a system perspective analysis in which the components depend and interact dynamically among ...
José-Pablo Gómez-Barrón, Miguel-Ángel Manso-Callejo, Ramón Alcarria, Teresa Iturrioz   +3 more
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A Survey of Volunteered Open Geo-Knowledge Bases in the Semantic Web

, 2013
Over the past decade, rapid advances in web technologies, coupled with innovative models of spatial data collection and consumption, have generated a robust growth in geo-referenced information, resulting in spatial information overload.
A. Ballatore, A. Buccella, A. Burton-Jones, A. Gangemi, A. Gore, A. Gómez-Pérez, A. Polleres, A. Schwering, A. Turner, B. Smith, C. Bizer, C. Jones, C. Keßler, C. Keßler, C. Manning, C.B. Jones, D. Buscaldi, D. Coleman, D. Nadeau, D. Strasunskas, D. Sui, F. Baader, F. Fonseca, F. Giunchiglia, F. Giunchiglia, F. Harvey, F.. Gey, F.J. Lopez-Pellicer, G. Bordogna, G. Fu, G. Tré De, G. Weikum, J. Giles, J. Goodwin, J. Howe, J. Leveling, K. Janowicz, K. Janowicz, L. Vaccari, L.L. Hill, M. Egenhofer, M. Goodchild, M. Goodchild, M. Grassi, M. Haklay, M. Haklay, M. Haklay, M. Kitsuregawa, M. Lutz, N. Choi, N. Guarino, N. Guarino, P. Burrough, P. Magnus, P. Roget, P. Singh, P.D. Smart, R. Fouad, R. Rada, S. Auer, S. Auer, S. Freitas, S. Hahmann, S. Overell, S. Schade, S. Staab, S. Vaid, S. Winter, T. Berners-Lee, T. Mandl, T. Mandl   +70 more
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A Volunteered Geographic Information-Based Environmental Decision Support System for Waste Management and Decision Making

Sustainability, 2020
The need for in-depth and fast observation of waste pollutions, increase in public concerns on environmental pollution and the effect of polluted environment on the physical and mental health of people have led to participatory environmental monitoring ...
A. Sadeghi-Niaraki, M. Jelokhani-Niaraki, Soo-Mi Choi   +2 more
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Identifying High‐Impact Solutions to Address Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Lupus: A Consensus‐Based Approach

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective We conducted formative research aimed at identifying solutions that address inequitable health outcomes in lupus due to adverse social determinants of health (SDoH). Methods We conducted a search for keywords, which provided insights into potential solutions and initiatives underway. An advisory panel of lupus experts iteratively reviewed the
Joy Buie, Michael P. Fisher, Kristen Backor, Hannah Tyldsley, Ashira Blazer, Candace Feldman, Andrea Knight, S. Sam Lim, Barbara Ann Polk, Ed Yelin, Edith Williams, Karen H. Costenbader   +11 more
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ASSESSING VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (VGI) QUALITY BASED ON CONTRIBUTORS' MAPPING BEHAVIOURS [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2013
VGI changed the mapping landscape by allowing people that are not professional cartographers to contribute to large mapping projects, resulting at the same time in concerns about the quality of the data produced.
D. Bégin, R. Devillers, S. Roche
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Retrieve volunteered geographic information for forest fire [PDF]

, 2011
The proposed contribution describes a methodology we are testing in the framework of an exploratory research project on the contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in the case-study of forest fires.
OSTERMANN Frank, SPINSANTI Laura
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Privacy-Aware Visualization of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to Analyze Spatial Activity: A Benchmark Implementation

ISPRS Int. J. Geo Inf., 2020
Through volunteering data, people can help assess information on various aspects of their surrounding environment. Particularly in natural resource management, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is increasingly recognized as a significant resource,
A. Dunkel, Marc Löchner, D. Burghardt
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