Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: User Generated Geographical information• Appeared because:-Increase accuracy of GPS (selective availability) -Capture devices -from GPS receivers to mobile phones with integrated camera and A-GPS -Decrease in storage costs -Increase in bandwidth with decrease in costs -Easy to use mapping websites, and wide availability of base mapping• Results: User Generated Content -Flickr, YouTube Flickr Geograph.org.uk• 9,399 users • 1.6m images • 75.5% coverage • Since last year, increase of 2600 users, 600,000 images and 4% in coverage Google Map Maker OpenStreetMap • Started at UCL by Steve Coast, in the summer of 2004, with the aim to create a crowdsourced street map of the world • Many people joined in to help with the technical infrastructure and collect data.About 40-50 people form the core of the organisation
Authors: Muki Haklay, Nama Raj Budhathoki
Language: English
Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W619640915