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Journal Article
Researching Volunteered Geographic Information: Spatial Data, Geographic Research, and New Social Practice
2012
Overview
The convergence of newly interactive Web-based technologies with growing practices of user-generated content disseminated on the Internet is generating a remarkable new form of geographic information. Citizens are using handheld devices to collect geographic information and contribute it to crowd-sourced data sets, using Web-based mapping interfaces to mark and annotate geographic features, or adding geographic location to photographs, text, and other media shared online. These phenomena, which generate what we refer to collectively as volunteered geographic information (VGI), represent a paradigmatic shift in how geographic information is created and shared and by whom, as well as its content and characteristics. This article, which draws on our recently completed inventory of VGI initiatives, is intended to frame the crucial dimensions of VGI for geography and geographers, with an eye toward identifying its potential in our field, as well as the most pressing research needed to realize this potential. Drawing on our ongoing research, we examine the content and characteristics of VGI, the technical and social processes through which it is produced, appropriate methods for synthesizing and using these data in research, and emerging social and political concerns related to this new form of information.
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group,Association of American Geographers,Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subject
/ Data
/ Datasets
/ Geographic information systems
/ Geographical information systems
/ Geography of markets and trade services
/ infraestructura de data espacial
/ Internet
/ Location
/ Mapping
/ Practice
/ Telecommunications. Mass media
/ voluntariado de información geográfica
/ volunteered geographic information
/ Web
/ Web 2.0
/ 地理空间网络
/ 新地理
/ 空间数据基础设施
/ 网络2.0
/ 自愿地理信息
