A Systems Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information

A Systems Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information

Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is geographic information collected by way of crowdsourcing. However, the distinction between VGI as an information product and the processes that create VGI is blurred. Clearly, the environment that influences the creation of VGI is different than the information product itself, yet most literature treats them as one and the same. Thus, this research is...

A Qualitative Perspective on Volunteered Geographic Information

In this paper, we present a novel framework for qualitative spatial information managing, constituting an extension for Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and valuable solutions to several issues related to Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). VGI can be regarded from different perspectives; one of these is to see it as a means to use the broadest sensor network in the world: human bein...

A human factors perspective on volunteered geographic information

A Framework for Implementing Volunteered Geographic Information Systems

In an effort to contribute to the conceptualization of the burgeoning field of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), we propose to review selected definitions and debates around Geographic Information Systems (GIS). “Traditional” geographic information emerges from the interplay of the components of GIS: hardware, software, data, and application, and it is shaped by the processing of geogra...

Volunteered Geographic Information and GIScience

What are the research questions posed by Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI)? Does Geographic Information Science (GIScience) appropriately address them or does it need to shift its attention? I discuss changes to current research agendas, propose an arising grand challenge, and outline some specific new research challenges for scientists working within and outside GIScience.