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Considerations of Privacy, Ethics and Legal Issues in Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]

, 2017
International audienceToday almost any kind of User Generated Content (UGC) can be situated within a geographic context. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) can include many types of UGC, such as georeferenced photographs, social media and text ...
Olteanu-Raimond, Ana-Maria, Juul, Niels, Kerle, N.; id_orcid, Touya, Guillaume, Alvanides, Seraphim, Juul, N., Foody, Giles, Mooney, P., Fritz, Steffen, Fonte, Cidália Costa, Juul, Niels Christian, See, Linda, Olteanu-Raimond, A., Alvanides, S., Mooney, Peter, Kerle, N., Kerle, Norman   +16 more
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Volunteered geographic information

, 2017
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) refers to geographic information that is acquired and made available to others through the voluntary activities of either individuals or groups.
Sui, D, Cinnamon, J
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Supporting Urban Energy Efficiency with Volunteered Roof Information and the Google Maps API

Remote Sensing, 2014
The Heat Energy Assessment Technologies (HEAT) project uses high-resolution airborne thermal imagery, Geographic Object-Based Image Analysis (GEOBIA), and a Geoweb environment to allow the residents of Calgary, Alberta, Canada to visualize the amount and
Bilal Abdulkarim, Rustam Kamberov, Geoffrey J. Hay   +2 more
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The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique [PDF]

, 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 ...
Haklay, M, Renée E Sieber, Sieber, RE, Mordechai Haklay   +3 more
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A Proximity-Based Semantic Enrichment Approach of Volunteered Geographic Information: A Study Case of Waste of Water

Information, 2019
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) refers to geospatial data that is collected and/or shared voluntarily over the Internet. Its use, however, presents many limitations, such as data quality, difficulty in use and recovery.
Liliane Soares da Costa, Italo Lopes Oliveira, Alexandra Moreira, Jugurta Lisboa-Filho   +3 more
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A review of volunteered geographic information quality assessment methods [PDF]

, 2017
With the ubiquity of advanced web technologies and location-sensing hand held devices, citizens regardless of their knowledge or expertise, are able to produce spatial information.
Ali, AL, Capineri, C, Mobasheri, A, Mobasheri, Amin, Haklay, Mordechai, Capineri, Cristina, Senaratne, Hansi, Senaratne, H, Haklay, MM, Ali, Ahmed Loai   +9 more
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Volunteered geographic information in Wikipedia

, 2010
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) refers to the geographic subset of online user-generated content. Through Geobrowsers and online mapping services, which use geovisualization and Web technologies to share and produce VGI, a global digital commons
Hardy, Darren
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Querying VGI by semantic enrichment

, 2016
Volunteered geographic information (VGI) plays an increasing role in current geodata provision. At the same time, due to its lack of structure, it is hard to use as meaningful input in software applications.
Jiang, Bin,, Lemmens, Rob,, De Sabbata, Stefano,, Bucher, Benedicte,, Falquet, Gilles,   +4 more
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Towards mapping road network patterns from volunteered geographic information: a case of openstreetmap in developing cities

Discover Cities
Volunteer-created OpenStreetMap (OSM) provides current and open-access geographic information. In the context of the Neogeography paradigm, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), Crowdsourced Geographic Data (CSGD), and Crowdsourced Geographic ...
Farzana Ahad, Huma Rashid, Shamim Ahmad Shah, Mohammad Shafi Bhat, Peer Jeelani   +4 more
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Determining the data quality-influencing characteristics of participants in volunteered geographic information campaigns – the case of maritime disasters

Geomatics, Natural Hazards & Risk
This study analyses how participant characteristics influence the quality of participants in volunteered geographic information (VGI). Despite the wide use of VGI in different areas, the quality of the data collected can vary significantly due to the ...
Marina Tavra, Anka Lisec, Vlado Cetl
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