The quality of geospatial context

Michael F. Goodchild

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04559-2_2

The quality of geospatial context

Michael F. Goodchild

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Abstract

The location of an event or feature on the Earth's surface can be used to discover information about the location's surrroundings, and to gain insights into the conditions and processes that may affect or even cause the presence of the event or feature. Such reasoning lies at the heart of critical spatial thinking, and is increasingly implemented in tools such as geographic information systems and online Web mashups. But the quality of contextual information relies on accurate positions and descriptions. Over the past two decades substantial progress has been made on the theory and methods of geospatial uncertainty, but hard problems remain in several areas, including uncertainty visualization and propagation. Web 2.0 mechanisms are fostering the rapid growth of user-generated geospatial content, but raising issues of associated quality.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Quality of Context - First International Workshop, QuaCon 2009, Revised Papers
Pages	15-24
Number of pages	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04559-2_2
State	Published - 2009
Externally published	Yes
Event	1st International Workshop on Quality of Context, QuaCon 2009 - Stuttgart, Germany Duration: Jun 25 2009 → Jun 26 2009

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	5786 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Other	1st International Workshop on Quality of Context, QuaCon 2009
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Stuttgart
Period	6/25/09 → 6/26/09

Keywords

Context
Error
Geospatial data
Uncertainty
Web 2.0

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
General Computer Science

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The quality of geospatial context. / Goodchild, Michael F.
Quality of Context - First International Workshop, QuaCon 2009, Revised Papers. 2009. p. 15-24 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 5786 LNCS).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Goodchild, MF 2009, The quality of geospatial context. in Quality of Context - First International Workshop, QuaCon 2009, Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 5786 LNCS, pp. 15-24, 1st International Workshop on Quality of Context, QuaCon 2009, Stuttgart, Germany, 6/25/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04559-2_2

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