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Mapping, geography

open access: yesTransactions 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

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

open access: yesTransactions 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

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

open access: yesThe 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   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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

open access: yesTransactions 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   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Does Coimbra Need A 3D Cadastre? Prototyping A Crowdsourcing App As A First Step To Finding Out [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Municipality of Coimbra in Portugal, and indeed the country as a whole, is currently undergoing a long-term land registration (cadastre creation) exercise, with approximately 50% of the country having been surveyed, amounting to 1/3 of the total ...
de Almedia, JP, Ellul, C, Romano, R
core   +3 more sources

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

open access: yesConservation 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   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can social media data be useful in spatial modelling? A case study of ‘museum Tweets’ and visitor flows [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper explores the potential of volunteered geographical information from social media to inform geographical models of behavior. Based on a case study of museums in Yorkshire, we created a spatial interaction model of visitors to 15 museums from ...
Birkin, M, Lovelace, R, Malleson, N
core  

Are crowdsourced datasets suitable for specialized routing services? Case study of Openstreetmap for routing of people with limited mobility [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Nowadays, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has increasingly gained attractiveness to both amateur users and professionals. Using data generated from the crowd has become a hot topic for several application domains including transportation ...
Ali, Ahmed Loai   +3 more
core   +3 more sources

Big Data (R)evolution in Geography: Complexity Modelling in the Last Two Decades

open access: yesGeography Compass, Volume 18, Issue 11, November 2024.
ABSTRACT The use of data and statistics along with computational systems heralded the beginning of a quantitative revolution in Geography. Use of simulation models (Cellular Automata and Agent‐Based Models) followed in the late 1990s, with ontology and epistemology of complexity theory and modelling being defined a little less than two decades ago.
Liliana Perez, Raja Sengupta
wiley   +1 more source

Validating Volunteered Geographic Information: Can We Reliably Trace Visitors\u27 Digital Footprints? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The objective of this study is to evaluate the quality of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) data for the purpose of describing patterns of visitor movement within a tourism destination.
Fesenmaier, Daniel, Stienmetz, Jason L
core   +1 more source

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