This book promotes the exploitation of novel and emerging approaches for mapping environmental and urban informatics empowered by citizens. The book includes diverse case studies from, Mexico, the United States and Czech Republic. The book includes diverse case studies from, Mexico, the United States and Czech Republic. The topics covered in this collection are of interest for research scholars, practitioners, postgraduates, and professionals from a variety of disciplines including geography, environmental science, geographic information science, social science, and computer science.
Foreword.- Chapter 1. Introduction (Michael Leitner).- Chapter 2. Volunteered geographic information for building territorial governance in Mexico City (Elvia Martķnez-Viveros).- Chapter 3. Evaluating the current state of geospatial software as a service platforms (Benjamin G. Lewis)- Chapter 4. A comparison of volunteered geographic information (VGI) collected in rural areas to VGI collected in urban and suburban areas of the United States (Kari J. Craun).- Chapter 5. Big geo-data handling based on parallel and distributed systems strategies (E. Stylianidis).- Chapter 6. Crowdsourcing of environmental health quality perceptions (Jirķ Pįnek).- Chapter 7. Level of details harmonization operations in OpenStreetMap based large scale maps (Guillaume Touya).- Chapter 8. Productive Networks and Indirect Locations (Andr e Sabino).- Chapter 9. Identifying Frost quakes in central Canada and neighbouring regions in the United States with social media (Andrew C.W. Leung).- Chapter 10. Struct
uring volunteered geographic information collection to improve information processing efficiency in environmental management (Mu-Ning Wand Brandeis).- Chapter 11. On reliability of routes computed based on Crowdsourced points of interest (Monir H. Sharker).- Chapter 12. Cartographic representation of soundscape (Saśl Gomez).- Chapter 13. Assessment of volunteer geographic information data quality in the U.S. Geological Survey"s (USGS) national map corps project (Erin Korris).- Chapter 14. Outlook.
| An Introduction to Citizen Empowered Mapping |
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Part I Data Acquisition and Modeling |
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1 Level of Details Harmonization Operations in OpenStreetMap Based Large Scale Maps |
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2 Cartographic Representation of Soundscape: Proposals and Assessment |
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3 Evaluating the Current State of Geospatial Software as a Service Platforms: A Comparison Study |
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4 Big Geo-Data Handling Based on Parallel and Distributed System's Strategies |
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5 Productive Networks and Indirect Locations |
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Part II Data Quality and Reliability |
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6 Assessment of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Quality in The National Map Corps Project of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) |
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7 On Reliability of Routes Computed Based on Crowdsourced Points of Interest |
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8 A Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Collected in Rural Areas to VGI Collected in Urban and Suburban Areas of the United States |
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Part III Environmental Monitoring and Perception |
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9 Identifying Frostquakes in Central Canada and Neighbouring Regions in the United States with Social Media |
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10 Structuring Volunteered Geographic Information Collection to Improve Information Processing Efficiency in Environmental Management |
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11 Volunteered Geographic Information for Building Territorial Governance in Mexico City: The Case of The Roma Neighborhood |
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12 Crowdsourcing of Environmental Health Quality Perceptions: A Pilot Study of Kromeriz, Czech Republic |
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| Outlook |
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Biographies of Editors and Book
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Jamal Jokar Arsanjani received his doctoral degree in Geographic Information Science (GISc) from the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Germany. His interdisciplinary research interests are in volunteered geographic information and crowdsourcing, geocomputation and spatial planning, remote sensing of the environment, and disaster management. He has published articles in leading international journals of his discipline, including International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, International Journal of Digital Earth, Transactions in GIS, Cities and single-authored a book on Dynamic Land Use/Cover Change Simulation: Geosimulation and Agent-based Modelling with Springer.
Michael Leitner received a master degree at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria anda second master and a doctoral degree in GISc at the Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, US. He is currently a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, US and a faculty member in the Doctoral College GIScience at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He has previously received a Fulbright Scholarship and is the recipient of the 2007 Meredith F. Burrill Award from the Association of American Geographers. His research interests are in GISc and its application to spatial crime analysis, medical geography, and geospatial privacy. He has published two co-authored books, one single-edited book and 40+ refereed articles and book chapters. He is the current editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS).
