Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice
By Sarah Elwood, Michael F. Goodchild, Daniel Z. Sui. 2012
791 citations recorded by the source corpus.
Subfields: Geography, Planning and Development, Transportation, Signal Processing
View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/74f117a5c7b1e188ce6e3cc3151a886400a95130
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In Geography, Planning and Development
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- Shan Jiang
- Mark Graham
- Giles M. Foody
- Michael Sinclair
- Ate Poorthuis
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In Transportation
- Shan Jiang
- Joseph Ferreira Jr.
- Marta C. González
- Bin Jiang
- Mark Graham
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- Joseph Ferreira Jr.
- Shan Jiang
- Mark Graham
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- Peng Gong
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Citations in the corpus
- Passive crowdsourcing of social media in environmental research: A systematic map (2019, background): “graphers” (Goodchild, 2007; Elwood et al., 2012) and on the prospects and challenges of citizen science projects (Tipaldo and Allamano, 2017; Velwaert and Caley, 2016).”
- Activity-Based Human Mobility Patterns Inferred from Mobile Phone Data: A Case Study of Singapore (2017, background): “, [8], [9], [10], [11]), and requires innovation to link the massive data with urban theory and thinking to derive new urban knowledge, called as urban computing or new urban science [7], [12], [13].”
- Mapping the Data Shadows of Hurricane Sandy: Uncovering the Sociospatial Dimensions of ‘Big Data’ (2014, background): “This critical approach to big data has been especially pronounced amongst those scholars studying the geographic contours of user-generated internet content, as notions of big data frequently incorporate elements of what have variously been called the geoweb or volunteered geographic information (Go”
- Crowdsourcing, Citizen Science or Volunteered Geographic Information? The Current State of Crowdsourced Geographic Information (2016, background): “Elwood et al. (2012) define VGI as spatial information that is voluntarily made available, with an aim to provide information about the world.”
- Mapping Urban Land Use by Using Landsat Images and Open Social Data (2016, background): “In other words, POI data can link the informal world of everyday human discourse and the formal world of GIS (Geographic Information System) [33–36].”
- The limits of crisis data: analytical and ethical challenges of using social and mobile data to understand disasters (2015, background): “There is a need to critique the assumptions that frame the use of volunteered geographic information (Elwood et al. 2012), particularly in crisis situations.”