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Analysing the Sustainability of Urban Development: A review on the Potential Use of Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
The challenges of how to ensure sustainable urban development are currently one of the important agenda among governments around the world. The stakeholders require the latest and high volume of geographic information for the decision making process to ...
N. Ibrahim   +3 more
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Privacy-Aware Visualization of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to Analyze Spatial Activity: A Benchmark Implementation [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 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, for example, supporting visitation pattern analysis to evaluate collective values and improve ...
Alexander Dunkel   +2 more
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Priložnosti za uporabo prostovoljnih geografskih informacij v okviru nacionalne prostorske podatkovne infrastrukture ( = Opportunities for using the volunteered geographic information within the national spatial data infrastructure) [PDF]

open access: yesGeodetski Vestnik, 2019
New sources of geospatial data and information have recently become available in the form of user-generated web content. The integration of these sources, often termed Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) or Crowdsourced Geographic Information (CGI),
Mihaela Triglav Čekada, Anka Lisec
doaj   +1 more source

MEASURING THE SPATIAL SIMILARITIES IN VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2023
Volunteered citizens have the potential to be used as social and distributed sensors, monitoring their surroundings and producing and sharing massive amounts of geographic data.
N. Mahmoody-Vanolya   +1 more
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A Geographical Abacus of the Urban Building Heritage Based on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)

open access: yes, 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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The role of Volunteered Geographic Information in participatory planning. Examples from Denmark and Finland

open access: yesGeoforum Perspektiv, 2012
Due to developments in pervasive computing and the diffusion of digital media technologies, the amount of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is rising rapidly. The paper looks at the potential of applying VGI to a participatory planning context and
Anne-Marie Sanvig Knudsen, Maarit Kahila
doaj   +3 more sources

A USER-DRIVEN SELECTION OF VGI BASED ON MINIMUM ACCEPTABLE QUALITY LEVELS [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Despite Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) activities are now extremely helpful in a number of scientific applications, researchers and decision makers oppose some resistance to the usage of volunteered contributions, due to quality issues. Several
G. Bordogna   +4 more
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A Spatio-Temporal VGI Model Considering Trust-Related Information

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016
Over the past several years, volunteered geographic information (VGI) has expanded rapidly. VGI collection has been proven to serve as a highly successful means of acquiring timely and detailed global spatial data.
Yijiang Zhao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Towards a Protocol for the Collection of VGI Vector Data

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2016
A protocol for the collection of vector data in Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) projects is proposed. VGI is a source of crowdsourced geographic data and information which is comparable, and in some cases better, than equivalent data from ...
Peter Mooney   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Life Cycle of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Contributors: the OpenStreetMap Example

open access: yesInternational Conference on GIScience Short Paper Proceedings, 2016
GIScience 2016 Short Paper Proceedings The Life Cycle of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Contributors: the OpenStreetMap Example D. Begin 1 , R. Devillers 1,2 , S. Roche 2 Department of Geography, Memorial University, St. John’s (NL), Canada Email:{d.begin; rdeville}@mun.ca Centre de recherche en geomatique, Universite Laval, Quebec (QC ...
Begin, Daniel   +2 more
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