TY - CHAP
T1 - Citizens as Sensors
T2 - The World of Volunteered Geography
AU - Goodchild, Michael F.
PY - 2011/4/24
Y1 - 2011/4/24
KW - Citizens as sensors - world of volunteered geography
KW - Digital divide - openness of VGI, preserve of those fortunate in accessing Internet
KW - Georeferencing - GIS relying on ability to specify location on Earth's surface
KW - Google Earth and Google Maps - popularizing, the term mash-up
KW - Google Earth phenomenon - as 'democratisation of GIS' (Butler 2006)
KW - Google Earthmash-up of Soho area of London - 1854 cholera outbreak made famous by Dr John Snow
KW - OpenStreet-Map, international effort - free source of map data through volunteer effort
KW - Spatial data infrastructure patchworks
KW - VGI activities, creation of elaborate representations of Earth's surface
KW - Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) - using the web to collect, and collaboratively map
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U2 - 10.1002/9780470979587.ch48
DO - 10.1002/9780470979587.ch48
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84888688822
SN - 9780470742839
SP - 370
EP - 378
BT - The Map Reader
PB - John Wiley and Sons
ER -