Today, disaster events are mobilizing digital volunteers to meet the data needs of those on
the ground. One form of this crowd work is Volunteered Geographic Information. This peer …

OSM plays a crucial role in advancing sustainable development across the economy,
environment, and society. It can foster economic sustainability by enabling infrastructure …

The purpose of this paper was to understand how Twitter users responded to the cultural
heritage damaged during the 2015 Nepal earthquake. This paper utilizes 201,457 tweets …

Understanding changes in the built environment is vital for sustainable urban development
and disaster preparedness. Recent years have seen the emergence of a variety of global …

Crowdsourced technology has been proven as effective communication mechanism in
various disaster relief efforts worldwide. It often results in generating actionable and timely …

Advancements in technology over the last two decades have changed how spatial data are
created and used. In particular, in the last decade, volunteered geographic information …

Created by volunteers since 2004, OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a global geographic database
available under an open access license and currently used by a multitude of actors …

Despite the rapid advancement and extensive applications of online Volunteered
Geographical Information (VGI) projects such as OpenStreetMap (OSM), the persistence of …

Few laws about geographical information are known, partly because geographical
information is inherently complex. Tobler's first law of Geography and, to a lesser degree …

Big data is presently considered integral to the management and strategies for digital
enterprise transformation. Beyond being 'a lot of data', big data can be characterized in …