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Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) systems and their interactions with Geospatial Semantic Web

open access: closed, 2015
With the development of the Internet, especially Web 2.0, user-generated contents such as “Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)” have gained attention and generated a lot of information over the Web. This chapter introduces the basic information about VGI and presents that VGI (or crowd-sourcing) applications have proven useful for gathering and ...
Chuanrong Zhang, Tian Zhao, Weidong Li
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Application of Citizen Science and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI): Tourism Development for Rural Communities

open access: closed, 2018
Owing to the rapid development of geospatial and mobile communication technologies in recent years, acquisition of high-quality spatial and temporal information has become much more efficient and cost effective than before. As a result, many researchers deem that data collected by volunteers with little training can be used for scientific researches if
Jihn-Fa Jan
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Evaluating Internet-based public participation GIS (PPGIS) and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in environmental planning and management

open access: closedJournal of Environmental Planning and Management, 2015
An Internet-based public participation geographic information system (PPGIS) is an affordable and accessible tool for citizens to provide location-based volunteered geographic information (VGI) in environmental planning and management. Based on a conceptual model, this study uses the SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis ...
Zhenghong Tang, Tiantian Liu
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Update Method of Indoor Maps Based on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

2018 26th International Conference on Geoinformatics, 2018
With the development of mobile positioning technology and people's indoor activities continuing to increase, the indoor maps as the basis for indoor navigation to express information have become the current research hot spots. Existing methods of indoor maps are mainly based on traditional surveying, spatial entities extraction from CAD (Computer Aided
Han Yue, Hangbin Wu
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Tourism and environmental change in Barbados: gathering citizen perspectives with volunteered geographic information (VGI)

Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 2013
New map-based online tools have the potential to facilitate citizen participation in discussing the impacts of tourism. This research investigates the use of Geospatial Web 2.0 (Geoweb) tools to gather volunteered geographic information (VGI) on tourism-related environmental change from citizens of Barbados.
Ricker, Britta A.   +2 more
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Worn Tissue Renovation Planning Using Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

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Mousavi, Seyed Mohamad Ebrahim   +1 more
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Visitor monitoring in protected areas: an approach to Natura 2000 sites using Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

Geografisk Tidsskrift-Danish Journal of Geography, 2019
This paper analyses visitor monitoring and the public use of protected areas using volunteered geographic information (VGI) as a source of big data and, as the object of study, the Ebro Delta Natur...
Joan Jurado Rota   +2 more
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A Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Framework for Disaster Management Based on Mobile Services and SDI

2018
With the advent of communication technology and location enabled handheld devices, the citizens, regardless of their knowledge or expertise, may help in generating spatial information. This phenomenon is known as volunteered geographic information (VGI).
A. Dasgupta, S. K. Ghosh
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The role of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI) in Spatial Planning

2014
Our contribution concerns the use of Social Media Geographic Information (SMGI) as an emergent pluralist source of information which may find valuable application in spatial planning and Geodesign. On the base of empirical research, the authors propose a tentative framework for SMGI Analytics in spatial planning.
CAMPAGNA, MICHELE   +4 more
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A Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Collected in Rural Areas to VGI Collected in Urban and Suburban Areas of the United States

2017
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is being collected worldwide and may be a source for authoritative data providers such as national mapping organizations. In order to evaluate the usability of these data as part of an authoritative dataset, it is first necessary to understand the quality and reliability of the data.
Kari J. Craun, Ming Chih-Hung
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