Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap [PDF]
Future Internet, 2014 User-generated content (UGC) platforms on the Internet have experienced a steep increase in data contributions in recent years. The ubiquitous usage of location-enabled devices, such as smartphones, allows contributors to share their geographic ...
Pascal Neis, Dennis Zielstra
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Highlighting Current Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a growing area of research. This Special Issue aims to capture the main trends in VGI research based on 16 original papers, and distinguishes between two main areas, i.e., those that deal with the ...
David Jonietz +3 more
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The utility of using Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for evaluating pluvial flood models [PDF]
Science of The Total Environment, 2023 Pluvial floods are increasingly threatening urban environments worldwide due to human-induced climate change. High-resolution, state-of-the-art pluvial flood models are urgently needed to inform climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction measures but are generally not empirically tested because of the rarity of local high-intensity ...
Drews, M. +8 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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The Potential of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Future Transport Systems
Urban Planning, 2016 As transport systems are pushed to the limits in many cities, governments have tried to resolve problems of traffic and congestion by increasing capacity. Miller (2013) contends the need to identify new capabilities (instead of capacity) of the transport
Maria Attard +2 more
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Maps, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and the spatio-discursive construction of nature
Digital Geography and Society, 2022 This paper interrogates the role that spatial media such as maps and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) play in the construction and mobilisation of representations of nature.
Juan Astaburuaga +3 more
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Assessing Completeness and Spatial Error of Features in Volunteered Geographic Information
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2013 The assessment of the quality and accuracy of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) contributions, and by extension the ultimate utility of VGI data has fostered much debate within the geographic community.
Anthony Stefanidis +5 more
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ASSESSMENT OF COMPLETENESS AND POSITIONAL ACCURACY OF LINEAR FEATURES IN VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (VGI) [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015 Recent advances in spatial data collection technologies and online services dramatically increase the contribution of ordinary people to produce, share, and use geographic information. Collecting spatial data as well as disseminating them on the internet
M. Eshghi, A. A. Alesheikh
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PUBLIC PERCEPTION ON DISASTER MANAGEMENT USING VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (VGI): CASE OF UAE [PDF]
ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015 The number of smart phones that are supported by location facility like Global Positioning System (GPS), Camera and connected to the internet has increased sharply in UAE during the last five years.
M. M. Yagoub
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Dataset on georeferenced and tagged photographs for ecosystem services assessment, Ebro Delta, N-E Spain [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2020 A georeferenced and tagged dataset of photographs is presented. Over 2000 photographs from the Ebro Delta Natural Park, N-E Spain, have been treated.
David Serrano Giné +3 more
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