The tasks of the crowd: A typology of tasks in geographic information crowdsourcing and a case study in humanitarian mapping

JP Albuquerque, B Herfort, M Eckle - Remote Sensing, 2016 - mdpi.com
In the past few years, volunteers have produced geographic information of different kinds,
using a variety of different crowdsourcing platforms, within a broad range of contexts …

Accurate attribute mapping from volunteered geographic information: issues of volunteer quantity and quality

GM Foody, L See, S Fritz, M Van der Velde… - The Cartographic …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Crowdsourcing is a popular means of acquiring data, but the use of such data is limited by
concerns with its quality. This is evident within cartography and geographical sciences more …

Assessing the accuracy of volunteered geographic information arising from multiple contributors to an internet based collaborative project

GM Foody, L See, S Fritz, M Van der Velde… - Transactions in …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The recent rise of neogeography and citizen sensing has increased the opportunities for the
use of crowdsourcing as a means to acquire data to support geographical research. The …

[HTML][HTML] The motivations, enablers and barriers for voluntary participation in an online crowdsourcing platform

A Baruch, A May, D Yu - Computers in Human Behavior, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper examines the phenomena of online crowdsourcing from the perspectives of both
volunteers and the campaign coordinator of Tomnod–an online mapping project that uses …

Rule-guided human classification of Volunteered Geographic Information

AL Ali, Z Falomir, F Schmid, C Freksa - ISPRS journal of photogrammetry …, 2017 - Elsevier
During the last decade, web technologies and location sensing devices have evolved
generating a form of crowdsourcing known as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) …

Crowdsourcing, citizen science or volunteered geographic information? The current state of crowdsourced geographic information

L See, P Mooney, G Foody, L Bastin, A Comber… - … International Journal of …, 2016 - mdpi.com
Citizens are increasingly becoming an important source of geographic information,
sometimes entering domains that had until recently been the exclusive realm of authoritative …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of crowdsourcing on spatial data quality indicators

M Van Exel, E Dias, S Fruijtier - Proceedings of the GIScience …, 2010 - giscience2010.org
Crowdsourced geospatial information has soared the last couple of years. For example the
statistics of OpenStreetMap (OSM) show an accelerating growth (OSM 2010). At the same …

[PDF][PDF] The tools of citizen science: An evaluation of map-based crowdsourcing platforms

Z Lamoureux, V Fast - Spatial Knowledge and Information Canada, 2019 - ceur-ws.org
There seems to be a persistent yet inaccurate sentiment that collecting vast amounts of data
via citizen science is virtually free, especially compared to the cost of privatized scientific …

[图书][B] European handbook of crowdsourced geographic information

C Capineri - 2016 - ubiquitypress.com
Cristina Capineri*, Muki Haklay, Haosheng Huang, Vyron Antoniou, Juhani Kettunen, Frank
Ostermann and Ross Purves* cristina. capineri@ unisi. it This book features contributions …

Limitations of majority agreement in crowdsourced image interpretation

CF Salk, T Sturn, L See, S Fritz - Transactions in GIS, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Crowdsourcing can efficiently complete tasks that are difficult to automate, but the quality of
crowdsourced data is tricky to evaluate. Algorithms to grade volunteer work often assume …