Citizens as Voluntary Sensors: Spatial Data Infrastructure in the World of Web 2.0

By Michael F. Goodchild. Int. J. Spatial Data Infrastructures Res., 2007

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Volunteered Geographic Information: the nature and motivation of produsers (2009, background): “Advances in geospatial positioning, Web mapping, cellular communications and wiki-based collaboration technologies have now outpaced the original visions of the architects of spatial data infrastructures around the world [e.g., (Goodchild, 2007), (Craglia et al., 2008) and others].”
"OMG, from here, I can see the flames!": a use case of mining location based social networks to acquire spatio-temporal data on forest fires (2009, background): “When such user-generated contents have a geographical dimension, these are now commonly referred to as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), having a huge potential to engage citizens in place-based issues and provide significant, timely and cost-effective source for Geographer’s and other spati”
Confronting the data-divide in a time of spatial turns and volunteered geographic information (2013, background): “…WikiMapia, and the post-natural disaster mapping initiatives such as in Haiti (http://haiti.ushahidi.com/) appear to be fuelled by altruistic motivations (see Goodchild 2007a) and operate on a distributed model in which the data user and data creator do not necessarily interact directly.”
The Street Network Evolution of Crowdsourced Maps: OpenStreetMap in Germany 2007-2011 (2011, background): “A few suggestions have been made to describe the motivation of the volunteers, such as a certain need for self-representation by the members or the project‘s fun factor, and a degree of interest in technical terminology, equipment, and the WWW [7].”
A CyberGIS Framework for the Synthesis of Cyberinfrastructure, GIS, and Spatial Analysis (2010, background): “T he quality and quantity of spatial (geographically referenced) data have improved and increased dramatically in the past few decades, and this trend will most likely continue in the foreseeable future (Goodchild 2007; S. Wang 2008).”
Web mapping 2.0: The neogeography of the GeoWeb (2008, background): “As Goodchild (2007a, 27) noted, [T]he early Web was primarily one-directional, allowing a large number of users to view the contents of a comparatively small number of sites, the new Web 2.0 is a bi-directional collaboration in which users are able to interact with and provide information to…”
How Good is Volunteered Geographical Information? A Comparative Study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey Datasets (2010, background): “Thus, while Goodchild (2007b) suggested that ‘the most important value of VGI may lie in what it can tell about local activities in various geographic locations that go unnoticed by the world’s media, and about life at a local level’, the evidence is that places that are perceived as ‘nice places’,…”
Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS (2008, background): “Goodchild (2007a) refers to this use VGI as part of a ‘patchwork’ approach to developing public spatial data resources.”
The future of citizen science: emerging technologies and shifting paradigms (2012, background): “Participants may develop new questions aided by data visualization or scientists may see previously insurmountable challenges – such as geolocating place names, topographic features, and transportation networks – as achievable given a number of now-available “citizen sensors” (Goodchild 2007).”
User-Generated Content as a Research Mode in Tourism and Hospitality Applications: Topics, Methods, and Software (2015, background): “Among a plethora of UGC types, wikis represent dynamically changing UGC; they are websites that allow users to edit site content, hence, operating on a principle of collaborative trust (Goodchild, 2007).”
Harvesting ambient geospatial information from social media feeds (2011, background): “…years the emergence and growth of volun-teered geography , with citizens as sensors, actively collecting and contributing geospatial information (Goodchild 2007b) utilizing Web 2.0 technologies and advances and reduction in terms of cost of data collection mechanisms (such as GPS enabled…”
How Many Volunteers Does it Take to Map an Area Well? The Validity of Linus’ Law to Volunteered Geographic Information (2010, background): “R E F E R E E D P A P E R”