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Crowdsourcing Street View Imagery: A Comparison of Mapillary and OpenStreetCam

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020
Over the last decade, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as a viable source of information on cities. During this time, the nature of VGI has been evolving, with new types and sources of data continually being added.
Ron Mahabir   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

VGI QUALITY CONTROL [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
This paper presents a framework for considering quality control of volunteered geographic information (VGI). Different issues need to be considered during the conception, acquisition and post-acquisition phases of VGI creation.
C. C. Fonte   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Quality assessment of volunteered geographic information for outdoor activities: an analysis of OpenStreetMap data for names of peaks in Japan

open access: yesGeo-spatial Information Science, 2023
Geographical studies of outdoor activities have increased in recent years with the rise in popularity of these activities worldwide, including in Japan. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a key tool for organizing outdoor activities as it offers
Jun Yamashita   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Citizen-based sensing of crisis events: sensor web enablement for volunteered geographic information [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Thanks to recent convergence of greater access to broadband connections, the availability of Global Positioning Systems in small packages at affordable prices and more participative forms of interaction on the Web (Web 2.0), vast numbers of individuals ...
Cox, Simon   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Shared Aerial Drone Videos — Prospects and Problems for Volunteered Geographic Information Research

open access: yesOpen Geosciences, 2019
The practice of producing drone videos for hobby or commercial purposes has already created a vast amount of open and free video datasets. When these videos are properly authored, time-stamped and geo-referenced, they receive characteristics of ...
Stankov Uglješa   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015
Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged ...
Mohammad Ebrahim Poorazizi   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deconstructing the binaries of spatial data production: Towards hybridity [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
types: ArticleCopyright © 2014 Canadian Association of Geographers / L' Association canadienne des géographesBinaries, the most reductive form of categorization, can be usefully invoked to characterize emerging phenomena; yet, they are widely critiqued ...
Cinnamon, J
core   +1 more source

TOWARDS RULE-GUIDED CLASSIFICATION FOR VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION [PDF]

open access: yesISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2015
Crowd-sourcing, especially in form of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) significantly changed the way geographic data is collected and the products that are generated from them.
A. Loai Ali   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of an Algorithm to Evaluate the Quality of Geolocated Addresses in Urban Areas

open access: yesISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023
The spatial and semantic data of geographic addresses are extremely important for citizens, governments, and companies. The addresses can georeference environmental, economic, security, health, and demographic parameters in urban areas.
Rafael Sierra Requena   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

VGI Quality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The poster summarizes the research works on Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) quality undertaken within the EU COST Actions TD1202 "Mapping and the Citizen Sensor" and IC1203 "European Network Exploring Research into Geospatial Information ...
Antoniou, Vyron   +6 more
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