“…The availability of faster data collection methods, in combination with technological advances including Web 2.0, and low-cost tools such as Global Positioning System (GPS) devices and smartphones, enables the public to participate in the data collection process (Goodchild 2007;Girres and Touya 2010;Haklay 2010;Ali and Schmid 2014;Forghani and Delavar 2014;Neis and Zielstra 2014). The involvement of amateurs, individuals and volunteers in crowdsourcing, which was recently described as "a type of participative online activity in which an individual, an institution, a non-profit organisation or a company proposes to a group of individuals of varying knowledge, heterogeneity, and number, via a flexible open call, the voluntary undertaking of a task" (Estellés Arolas and González Ladrón-de-Guevara 2012, p. 197), generates location-based social networking and collaborative mapping (Franklin et al 2013;Shanley et al 2013). This new era, involving a set of geographic information systems (GIS) techniques and tools available to public and non-expert users, is characterised as Neogeography (Haklay et al 2008) Neogeography as a concept appeared in 2006 and is defined by Turner (2006, p.3) as "the sharing of location information with friends and visitors, helping shape context, and conveying understanding through knowledge of place".…”