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AN INVENTORY DATABASE FOR GEOEDUCATIONAL OUTREACH BASED ON VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION (VGI) APPROACH IN MALAYSIA

GeoJournal of Tourism and Geosites, 2018
The authors aim to construct a geosite database in Malaysia that is based on volunteered geographic information approach. This is because geosites information is quite scattered around the country. Free tools from the internet such as google form and wixwebsite.com were used to produce the database.
Norbert SIMON, Che Aziz ALI, Marilah SARMAN, Dana BADANG, Tanot UNJAH, Mat Niza RAHMAN   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Rethinking GIScience Education in an Age of Disruptions

Transactions in GIS, Volume 29, Issue 2, April 2025.
ABSTRACT GIS and GIScience education have continually evolved over the past three decades, responding to technological advances and societal issues. Today, the content and context in which GIScience is taught continue to be impacted by these disruptions, notably from technology through artificial intelligence (AI) and society through the myriad ...
Amy E. Frazier, Trisalyn Nelson, Peter Kedron, Eric Shook, Somayeh Dodge, Alan Murray, Michael Goodchild, Sarah Battersby, Justine I. Blanford, Christophe Claramunt, Joseph Holler, Caglar Koylu, Angela Lee, Steven Manson, Seda Şalap‐Ayça, John P. Wilson, Bo Zhao, Lauren Bennett, Carmen Cabrera, Rachel Franklin, Grant McKenzie, Harvey Miller, Taylor Oshan, Sergio Rey, Francisco Rowe, Seth Spielman, Wenfei Xu   +26 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping, geography

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 1, March 2025.
Short Abstract An exploration of the relationship between geography and mapping, explored through past RGS‐IBG conference addresses/themes and three cartographic genealogies: family trees; disjunctures; and formally subjugated forms of mapping practice which now define the field.
Stephen Legg
wiley   +1 more source

VGI ed emergenze

GEOmedia, 2016
Availability of up-to-date geographic datasets, including the information voluntarily created by ordinary people, is crucial for disaster management in areas affected by catastrophic events and humanitarian crises. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the most popular
Flavio Lupia, Marco Minghini, Maurizio Napolitano, Alessandro Palmas, Alessandro Sarretta   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

VISUALIZATION OF VGI DATA THROUGH THE NEW NASA WEB WORLD WIND VIRTUAL GLOBE [PDF]

The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, 2016
GeoWeb 2.0, laying the foundations of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) systems, has led to platforms where users can contribute to the geographic knowledge that is open to access.
M. A. Brovelli, C. E. Kilsedar, G. Zamboni   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Does Linus' Law Apply to Data Quality in Volunteered Street View Imagery (VSVI)? Mechanisms Contributing to VSVI Data Quality Improvement for Environmental Audits

Transactions in GIS, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT Street View Imagery (SVI) is crucial for urban environmental audits. Although Volunteered Street View Imagery (VSVI) has the potential to provide higher spatial and temporal resolution than traditional SVI, the use of such user‐generated data is currently limited by the inherent spatial heterogeneity in contributions and unclear quality ...
Xinrui Zheng, Mamoru Amemiya
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) for Emergency Management: Toward a Wiki GIS Framework [PDF]

, 2010
The past three years have witnessed unprecedented growth of user-generated volunteered geographic information (VGI) on the Web. Although scholars, decision makers, and citizens have recognized the potential value of VGI in emergency management, there ...
Xu, Chen
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Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]

This open access book includes methods for retrieval, semantic representation, and analysis of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), geovisualization and user interactions related to VGI, and discusses selected topics in active participation, social ...

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Validation of Regional Positioning Service User Connections as Support in Update Cartography

Transactions in GIS, Volume 29, Issue 1, February 2025.
ABSTRACT The significant demand for highly updated geospatial or cartographic information surpasses the capacity of the official agencies responsible for its generation. The procedure for updating official cartography, in some Spanish regions, can take more than three or 4 years.
Cristina Torrecillas, Francisco J. Ramos‐Sánchez, Carmen Marín‐Buzón, Amparo Verdú‐Vázquez   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Digital equity in a crowded tool space: Navigating opportunities and challenges for equitable implementation of conservation technologies

Conservation Science and Practice, Volume 7, Issue 1, January 2025.
Encouraging more equitable approaches to conservation technologies underpins global priorities for sustainable development by centering and supporting the communities most directly involved in conservation actions. Based on direct feedback from developers and users of these technologies, we establish that not only is improving access and increasing the
Karyn M. Tabor, Natasha Stavros, Dawn Biehler, Liliana C. Castillo‐Villamor, Dillon Mahmoudi, Luis Mario Moreno Amado, Margaret B. Holland   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source