TY  - BOOK
ED  - Huang, Haosheng
ED  - Purves, Ross
ED  - Antoniou, Vyron
ED  - Capineri, Cristina
ED  - Kettunen, Juhani
ED  - Ostermann, Frank
ED  - Haklay, Muki
AB  - "This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and Web applications. The exploitation, integration and application of these sources, termed volunteered geographic information (VGI) or crowdsourced geographic information (CGI), offer scientists an unprecedented opportunity to conduct research on a variety of topics at multiple scales and for diversified objectives. The Handbook is organized in five parts, addressing the fundamental questions: What motivates citizens to provide such information in the public domain, and what factors govern/predict its validity?What methods might be used to validate such information? Can VGI be framed within the larger domain of sensor networks, in which inert and static sensors are replaced or combined by intelligent and mobile humans equipped with sensing devices? What limitations are imposed on VGI by differential access to broadband Internet, mobile phones, and other communication technologies, and by concerns over privacy? How do VGI and crowdsourcing enable innovation applications to benefit human society?  Chapters examine how crowdsourcing techniques and methods, and the VGI phenomenon, have motivated a multidisciplinary research community to identify both fields of applications and quality criteria depending on the use of VGI. Besides harvesting tools and storage of these data, research has paid remarkable attention to these information resources, in an age when information and participation is one of the most important drivers of development.  The collection opens questions and points to new research directions in addition to the findings that each of the authors demonstrates. Despite rapid progress in VGI research, this Handbook also shows that there are technical, social, political and methodological challenges that require further studies and research."
DO  - 10.5334/bax
ID  - OAPEN ID: 617901
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 972087628
ID  - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/32079
KW  - crowdsourcing
KW  - geospatial information
KW  - volunteered geographic information
KW  - spatial data
KW  - OpenStreetMap
KW  - Social media
KW  - Twitter
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32079/1/617901.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32079/1/617901.pdf
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/32079/1/617901.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/37132
PB  - Ubiquity Press
PY  - 2016
SN  - 9781909188808;9781909188815;9781909188822
TI  - European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Informationnull
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