European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: London, United Kingdom
Language: eng
Format: E-book; Print book
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781909188792; 9781909188808; 9781909188822; 9781909188815
Description: 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.
Table of contents: label: Acknowledgements; label: Supporting Institutions; label: Chapter 1
title: Introduction; label: Part I
title: Theoretical and social aspects; label: Chapter 2
title: The Nature of Volunteered Geographic Information; label: Chapter 3
title: Why is participation inequality important?; label: Chapter 4
title: Social Media Geographic Information: Why social is special when it goes spatial?; label: Part II
title: Quality: Criteria and methodologies; label: Chapter 5
title: Handling quality in crowdsourced geographic information; label: Chapter 6
title: Data quality in crowdsourcing for biodiversity research: issues and examples; label: Chapter 7
title: Semantic Challenges for Volunteered Geographic Information; label: Chapter 8
title: Quality analysis of the Parisian OSM toponyms evolution; label: Chapter 9
title: Tackling the thematic accuracy of areal features in OpenStreetMap; label: Chapter 10
title: Enhancing the management of quality of VGI: contributions from context and task modelling; label: Part III
title: Data analytics; label: Chapter 11
title: A methodological toolbox for exploring collections of textually annotated...; label: Chapter 12
title: Gaining Knowledge from Georeferenced Social Media Data with Visual Analytics; label: Chapter 13
title: Head/tail Breaks for Visualization of City Structure and Dynamics; label: Chapter 14
title: Querying VGI by semantic enrichment; label: Chapter 15
title: Extracting Location Information from Crowd-sourced Social Network Data; label: Chapter 16
title: Spatial and Temporal Sentiment Analysis of Twitter data; label: Chapter 17
title: Social Networks VGI: Twitter Sentiment Analysis of Social Hotspots; label: Chapter 18
title: Research on social media feeds - A GIScience perspective; label: Part IV
title: VGI and crowdsourcing in environmental monitoring; label: Chapter 19
title: Changing role of citizens in national environmental monitoring; label: Chapter 20
title: On the Contribution of Volunteered Geographic Information to Land Monitoring Efforts; label: Chapter 21
title: Discussing the Potential of Crowdsourced Geographic Information for Urban Areas...; label: Chapter 22
title: AtrapaelTigre.com: enlisting citizen-scientists in the war on tiger mosquitoes; label: Chapter 23
title: Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster management and improving urban...; label: Part V
title: VGI in mobility; label: Chapter 24
title: for individual needs - the case of routing and navigation...; label: Chapter 25
title: Smart Timetable Service Based on Crowdsensed Data; label: Chapter 26
title: Mobile crowd-sensing in the Smart City; label: Chapter 27
title: Mobile crowd sensing for smart urban mobility; label: Part VI
title: VGI in spatial planning; label: Chapter 28
title: Using mobile crowdsourcing and geotagged social media data to study people’s affective; label: Chapter 29
title: Integrating Authoritative and Volunteered Geographic Information for spatial planning; label: Chapter 30
title: Proposed Crowdsourcing Cadastral Model: Taking Advantage of Previous Experience...; label: Chapter 31
title: Modelling the world in 3D from VGI/Crowdsourced data; label: Glossary; label: Glossary’s Bibliography