Participating in the Geospatial Web: Collaborative Mapping, Social Networks and Participatory GIS

Rouse, Lauren; Bergeron, Susan; Harris, Trevor

doi:10.1007/978-1-84628-827-2_14

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“…Due to the advancement of Web 2.0 technologies, citizen observations have been well organized, stored, and maintained through collaborative mapping projects (CMPs: (Rouse et al 2007;), whereby these observations have been made available to the public for downloading, revising and for commenting upon. This approach has helped to collect citizen observations not only in a raw form, but also updated and corrected by other citizens, who wish to contribute to these collections (Jokar Arsanjani, Mooney, Helbich, et al 2015).…”

Section: Collaborative Mapping Via Citizensmentioning

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Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Arsanjani

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Tayyebi

2016

International Journal of Digital Earth

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Global land cover maps have been widely employed as the base layer for a number of applications including climate change, food security, water quality, biodiversity, change detection and environmental planning. Due to the importance of land cover, there is a pressing need to increase the temporal and spatial resolution of global land cover maps. A recent advance in this direction has been the GlobeLand30 dataset derived from Landsat imagery, which has been developed by the National Geomatics Center of China (NGCC). Although overall accuracy is greater than 80%, the NGCC would like help in assessing the accuracy of the product in different regions of the world. To assist in this process, this study compares the GlobeLand30 product with existing public and online datasets, i.e. CORINE, Urban Atlas, OpenStreetMap and ATKIS for Germany in order to assess overall and per class agreement. The results of the analysis reveal high agreement of up to 92% between these datasets and GlobeLand30 but that large disagreements for certain classes are evident, in particular wetlands. However, overall, GlobeLand30 is shown to be a useful product for characterizing land cover in Germany, and paves the way for further regional and national validation efforts.

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Section: Collaborative Mapping Via Citizensmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Arsanjani

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Tayyebi

2016

International Journal of Digital Earth

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“…The additional geographic component, usually represented by latitude and longitude values, separates a special data type from these contributions, oftentimes termed crowd-sourced geodata [10,11], collaborative GI [12,13] or more commonly known as volunteered geographic information (VGI; [1]). Related concepts that do not solely focus on the collection of information have also been termed in many different ways, such as collaborative mapping [14], wikification of geographic information systems (GIS) [15], participatory GIS [16], public participation GIS [17] or web mapping 2.0 [18].…”

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Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap

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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 information on a number of selected online portals. The collected information is oftentimes referred to as volunteered geographic information (VGI). One of the most utilized, analyzed and cited VGI-platforms, with an increasing popularity over the past few years, is OpenStreetMap (OSM), whose main goal it is to create a freely available geographic database of the world. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in VGI research, focusing on its collaboratively collected geodata and corresponding contributor patterns. Additionally, trends in the realm of OSM research are discussed, highlighting which aspects need to be investigated more closely in the near future.

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“…For example, with the development of AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies, online mapping interfaces became much more interactive and allowed users to share and contribute content. Terms such as interactive mapping and collaborative mapping are used to express these characteristics (Figure 1) (Bernardin et al, 2006;Rouse et al, 2009;Aye et al, 2016). Even terms like participatory mapping and community mapping are implying online mapping because of the developments and benefits of using the web in participatory mapping processes (Plantin, 2014).…”

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What Iswebmapping Anyway?

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Brovelli

et al. 2017

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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ABSTRACT:Although maps have been around for a very long time, web maps are yet very young in their origin. Despite their relatively short history, web maps have been developing very rapidly over the past few decades. The use, users and usability of web maps have rapidly expanded along with developments in web technologies and new ways of mapping. In the process of these developments, the terms and terminology surrounding web mapping have also changed and evolved, often relating to the new technologies or new uses. Examples include web mapping, web GIS, cloud mapping, internet mapping, internet GIS, geoweb, map mashup, online mapping etc., not to mention those with prefixes such as "web-based" and "internet-based". So, how do we keep track of these terms, relate them to each other and have common understandings of their meanings so that references to them are not ambiguous, misunderstood or even different? This paper explores the terms surrounding web mapping and web GIS, and the development of their meaning over time. The paper then suggests the current context in which these terms are used and provides meanings that may assist in better understanding and communicating using these terms in the future.

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Participating in the Geospatial Web: Collaborative Mapping, Social Networks and Participatory GIS

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Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Assessing the suitability of GlobeLand30 for mapping land cover in Germany

Recent Developments and Future Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information Research: The Case of OpenStreetMap

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