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A Geographical Abacus of the Urban Building Heritage Based on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

open access: closed, 2021
This paper describes the preliminary result of the research project “Urban Abacus of Building Energy performances (Abaco Urbano Energeticodegli Edifci – AUREE)” aimed at supporting the renovation and energy efficiency enhancement of urban building heritage financed by Ricerca Sistema Elettrico (MISE) program.
Stefano Pili   +4 more
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Crowdsourcing geographic knowledge: volunteered geographic information (VGI) in theory and practice

open access: closedInternational Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2014
Crowdsourcing has become a popular silver bullet for groups with limited staff and overwhelming problems. But, warn others, there are two sides to that coin.
David Tulloch
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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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Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge

2013
The phenomenon of volunteered geographic information is part of a profound transformation in how geographic data, information, and knowledge are produced and circulated. By situating volunteered geographic information (VGI) in the context of big-data deluge and the data-intensive inquiry, the 20 chapters in this book explore both the theories and ...
Daniel Z. Sui   +2 more
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A discussion for integrating INSPIRE with volunteered geographic information (VGI) and the vision for a global spatial-based platform

Fifth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2017), 2017
INSPIRE is the EU’s authoritative Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) in which each Member State provides access to their spatial data across a wide spectrum of data themes to support policy making. In contrast, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is one type of user-generated geographic information where volunteers use the web and mobile devices to
Demetriou, Demetris   +3 more
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