Citizen empowered mapping

This book promotes the exploitation of novel and emerging approaches for mapping environmental and urban informatics empowered by citizens. Chapters are grouped in three sections representing the main subjects. The first section describes data acquisition and modeling. The second section focuses on...

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Other Authors Leitner, Michael, 1965- (Editor), Arsanjani, Jamal Jokar (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer, 2017.
SeriesGeotechnologies and the environment ; volume 18.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319516295
9783319516288
Physical Description1 online resource : color illustrations, maps

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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • introduction
  • Part I: Data Acquisition and Modeling
  • Chapter 1. Level of Details Harmonization Operations in OpenStreetMap Based Large Scale Maps
  • Chapter 2. Cartographic Representation of Soundscape: Proposals and Assessment
  • Chapter 3. Evaluating the Current State of Geospatial Software as a Service Platforms: A Comparison Study
  • Chapter 4. Big geo-data handling based on parallel and distributed system's strategies
  • Chapter 5. Productive Networks and Indirect Locations
  • Part II: Data Quality and Reliability
  • Chapter 6. Assessment of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Quality in The National Map Corps Project of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  • Chapter 7. On Reliability of Routes Computed Based on Crowdsourced Points of Interest
  • Chapter 8. A Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Collected in Rural Areas to VGI Collected in Urban and Suburban Areas of the United States
  • Part III: Environmental Monitoring and Perception
  • Chapter 9. Identifying Frostquakes in Central Canada and Neighbouring Regions in the United States with Social Media
  • Chapter 10. Structuring Volunteered Geographic Information Collection to Improve Information Processing Efficiency in Environmental Management
  • Chapter 11. Volunteered Geographic Information for Building Territorial Governance in Mexico City: The Case of The Roma Neighborhood
  • Chapter 12. Crowdsourcing of environmental health quality perceptions: A pilot study of Kroměříž, Czech Republic.