Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography

By Michael F. Goodchild. 2007

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Geography, Planning and Development, Signal Processing

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Extracting and understanding urban areas of interest using geotagged photos (2015, positive): “Volunteered geographic information (VGI) provides an alternative data source for many geospatial applications (Goodchild 2007, Elwood 2008, Sui et al. 2012, Hu et al. 2013).”
On the "localness" of user-generated content (2010, background): “It is in that area that [user-generated geographic information] may offer the most interesting, lasting and compelling value” [3] (emphases added).”
Assuring the quality of volunteered geographic information (2012, background): “In the past few years there has been a very rapid growth of interest in volunteered geographic information (VGI; Goodchild, 2007), a version of crowd-sourcing in which members of the general public create and contribute georeferenced facts about the Earth’s surface and near-surface to websites…”
A Tale of Cities: Urban Biases in Volunteered Geographic Information (2014, background): “…demonstrates that differences in technology use in rural and urban areas have led to a systemic bias against rural points of view in volunteered geographic information (VGI), the important subset of user-generated content that is geographically referenced (e.g. has lat/lon tags) (Goodchild 2007).”
Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice (2012, background): “With respect to the geographic extent, the bulk of the sites we reviewed are local in extent (76 percent), in keeping with prior suggestions that VGI is a highly localized phenomenon (Goodchild 2007).”
Geospatial analysis requires a different way of thinking: the problem of spatial heterogeneity (2014, background): “…when we face increasing rich geographic data sources based not only on the legacy of traditional cartography and remote sensing imagery, but also emerging from various social media such as Flickr, Twitter, and OpenStreetMap, collectively known as volunteered geographic information (Goodchild 2007).”
Uncovering Patterns of Inter-Urban Trip and Spatial Interaction from Social Media Check-In Data (2013, background): “Since much information is associated with particular locations, Goodchild coined the term volunteered geographical information (VGI) for it [1].”
Questioning Big Data: Crowdsourcing crisis data towards an inclusive humanitarian response (2016, background): “For instance, the QuakeMap example shows that crowdsourcing of crisis information can result in data sets that reflect existing inequalities, especially digital divides (Crutcher and Zook, 2009; Elwood, 2007; Goodchild, 2007).”
Crowdsourcing for climate and atmospheric sciences: current status and future potential (2015, positive): “Citizen science is a form of collaborative research involving members of the public: volunteers, amateurs and enthusiasts (Goodchild, 2007; Wiggins and Crowston, 2011; Roy et al., 2012).”
New Generation Sensor Web Enablement (2011, background): “By looking at Web 2.0 applications which allow sharing of geographic information, Goodchild [131] coined the term Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and proposed to extend the notion of sensor networks by incorporating humans as sensors.”
Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information (2016, background): “The literature describes this phenomenon using a multitude of terms, which have emerged from different disciplines [1]; some are focused on the spatial nature of the data such as volunteered geographic information (VGI) [2] and neogeography [3], while others have much broader applicability, e.”
Beyond the geotag: situating ‘big data’ and leveraging the potential of the geoweb (2013, background): “…pointed to the possibility for new web-based forms of geographic information production to enable a democratization of GIS by way of the internet (Goodchild 2007), or the emergence of a new, more ﬂ exible ontology and epistemology for geographic information (Warf and Sui 2010), others saw more…”
A geographic approach for combining social media and authoritative data towards identifying useful information for disaster management (2015, background): “Of particular interest here are social media messages that carry a geographic reference, which can be considered Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) (Goodchild 2007, Sui and Goodchild 2011), since they can be used for composing a picture of what is happening in a specific place.”