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Estimating park visitation in Canadian national parks using volunteered geographic information (VGI)

Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism
Matthew W. Ketchin, Jed Long
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Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap [PDF]

, 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 ...
Anderson, Anthony, Bishr, Brassel, Coleman, Coleman, Coleman, Dennis Zielstra, Elwood, Goetz, Goetz, Goetz, Hunter, Janowicz, Kuhn, O’Reilly, Pascal Neis, Poser, Ramm, Ramm, Raymond, Roick, Rouse, Scheider, Tapscott, Touya, Wunsch-Vincent, Zielstra   +27 more
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Citizen science approaches to crowdsourcing food environment data: A scoping review of the literature

Obesity Reviews, Volume 24, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
Summary Globally, the adoption and implementation of policies to improve the healthiness of food environments and prevent population weight gain have been inadequate. This is partly because of the complexity associated with monitoring dynamic food environments.
Jacqueline Monaghan, Kathryn Backholer, Amy‐Louise McKelvey, Rebecca Christidis, Ann Borda, Cobi Calyx, Alessandro Crocetti, Christine Driessen, Christina Zorbas   +8 more
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Highlighting Current Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]

, 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 ...
Antonio, V., Jonietz, D., See, L., Zipf, A.   +3 more
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The context of outdoor walking: A classification of user‐generated routes

The Geographical Journal, Volume 189, Issue 3, Page 485-500, September 2023., 2023
Short Abstract Analysing about 4 million user‐generated walking routes produced in Great Britain, we characterise routes combining primary attributes and contextual information, including land cover and points of interest. Second, by applying unsupervised learning to this data model, we produce the Walking Route Classification.
Andrea Ballatore, Stefano Cavazzi, Jeremy Morley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contribution of Geomatics Engineering and VGI Within the Landslide Risk Assessment Procedures [PDF]

, 2015
This paper presents a literature review on the methodology called Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and its use for Landslide Risk Assessment (LRA).
BERTACCHINI, Eleonora, CAPRA, Alessandro, CASTAGNETTI, Cristina, Ceppi, C, MANCINI, Francesco, RIVOLA, RICCARDO   +5 more
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Motivating and Sustaining Participation in VGI [PDF]

, 2017
Volunteers are the key component in the collection of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), so what motivates their participation, what strategies work in recruitment and how sustainability of participation can be achieved are key questions that need
Brovelli, M., Fritz, S., See, L.
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Volunteered geographic information in natural hazard analysis : a systematic literature review of current approaches with a focus on preparedness and mitigation [PDF]

, 2016
With the rise of new technologies, citizens can contribute to scientific research via Web 2.0 applications for collecting and distributing geospatial data.
Albuquerque, João Porto de, Höfle, Bernhard, Klonner, Carolin, Marx, Sabrina, Usón, Tomás   +4 more
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Reputation evaluation of georeferenced data for crowd-sensed applications [PDF]

, 2017
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a process where individuals, supported by enabling technologies, behave like physicalsensorstoharvestgeoreferencedcontentintheirsurroundings.
Gusmini, Marco, Jabeur, Nafaa, Karam, Roula, Melchiori, Michele, Renso, Chiara   +4 more
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MusA: Using Indoor Positioning and Navigation to Enhance Cultural Experiences in a museum [PDF]

, 2013
In recent years there has been a growing interest into the use of multimedia mobile guides in museum environments. Mobile devices have the capabilities to detect the user context and to provide pieces of information suitable to help visitors discovering ...
Alciatore, Andrea Bottino, Andrea Martina, Baharuddin, Bellotti, Bihler, Bitgood, Bitgood, Bruno, Chen, Chen, Csikszentmihalyi, Dean, Douglas, Emmanouilidis, Falk, Faugeras, Fischler, Ghiani, Ghiani, Giovanni Malnati, Guillemaut, Hausmann, Hausmann, Hsu, Huang, Irene Rubino, Iurgel, Jetmir Xhembulla, Kang, Kenteris, Maybank, Mulloni, Packer, Proctor, Rounds, Russo, Ruíz, Schweighofer, Serrell, Stock, Traum, Tsai, Veron, Wang, Yanying, Zhang, Zhang   +47 more
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