Bibliometric Analysis to Understand the Place of the Visits of Natural Areas in the Field of Volunteered Geographic Information Research

Abstract

Introduction 1Increasingly, people who visit natural spaces, and primarily athletes (Mao & Obin, 2018), are equipping themselves, mobilising digital devices and interacting and structuring themselves in virtual communities. They thus produce digital footprints, i.e., traces left behind when browsing the Internet or using a service from a digital terminal. These footprints have informational, experiential and/or spatial content, thus becoming geodigital footprints (