Local Knowledge Doesn’t Grow on Trees: Community-Integrated Geographic Information Systems and Rural Community Self-Definition

Elmes, Gregory; Dougherty, Michael J.; Challig, Hallie; Karigomba, Wilbert; McCusker, Brent; Weiner, Daniel

doi:10.1007/3-540-26772-7_3

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“…This marks a trend toward increasing publicly volunteered geographic information, where various forms of geodata are provided voluntarily by individuals (Goodchild 2007). Depending on its instantiation, VGI can be viewed either as an extension of public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS; Sieber 2006), collaborative GIS (Balram and Dragicevic 2006), participatory GIS (Elwood 2006b;Kyem 2004), and Community Integrated GIS (CIGIS; Elmes et al 2004) to laypeople, or as a version of these that is more inclusive by virtue of its emergence among endusers, based on their own particular interests and goals (sometimes called ''GIS/2;'' see Miller 2006). Indeed, some argue that contemporary geographic and spatial practices such as those described above signal neogeography (Jackson 2006;Turner 2006), based on nontraditional GIS techniques that spawn ''geography without geographers'' (Sui 2008, p. 5).…”

Section: Social Computing and Volunteered Geographic Informationmentioning

confidence: 98%

The credibility of volunteered geographic information

2008

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The proliferation of information sources as a result of networked computers and other interconnected devices has prompted significant changes in the amount, availability, and nature of geographic information. Among the more significant changes is the increasing amount of readily available volunteered geographic information. Although volunteered information has fundamentally enhanced geographic data, it has also prompted concerns with regard to its quality, reliability, and overall value. This essay situates these concerns as issues of information and source credibility by (a) examining the information environment fostering collective information contribution, (b) exploring the environment of information abundance, examining credibility and related notions within this environment, and leveraging extant research findings to understand user-generated geographic information, (c) articulating strategies to discern the credibility of volunteered geographic information (VGI), including relevant tools useful in this endeavor, and (d) outlining specific research questions germane to VGI and credibility.

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Section: Social Computing and Volunteered Geographic Informationmentioning

confidence: 98%

The credibility of volunteered geographic information

2008

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“…Far less attention has been given to the question of how local government spatial data might be more accessible and useful for these institutions. Consequently, after a decade of PPGIS research and practise, there is still abundant evidence that spatial data access and appropriateness continue to be a problem for grassroots groups (Elmes et al 2004, Elwood 2006b, Ghose 2007. To more fully understand these continuing challenges, it is important to also consider research that has examined the socio-political and technological practices of existing structures for distributed data access, such as SDIs, data clearinghouses, and geoportals.…”

Section: Geospatial Data Challenges At the Grassroots: Propositions Fmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Or, these groups may need attributes that are not available from existing public sources (Ghose and Huxhold 2002, Elwood and Leitner 2003, Warren 2004). Local government data may fail to represent the perceptions and priorities of grassroots groups, articulate spatial attributes in vocabularies unfamiliar to these users, or rely on semantic systems for describing spatial conditions that differ significantly from those of grassroots groups (Rundstrom 1995, Elmes et al 2004.…”

Section: Geospatial Data Challenges At the Grassroots: Propositions Fmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grassroots groups as stakeholders in spatial data infrastructures: challenges and opportunities for local data development and sharing

Elwood

2008

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

105

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This paper investigates the unique challenges of an expanding group of stakeholders making demands upon shared geospatial data resources: non governmental organisations participating in local governance. In spite of efforts to improve local data integration in spatial data infrastructures and development of strategies from public participation GIS to expand access to geospatial data and technologies, grassroots data users still experience difficulties with the accessibility, quality, and usefulness of local government data resources. Drawing from extended ethnographic research conducted in Chicago, Illinois, I illustrate these problems and how they are shaped by grassroots groups' resource constraints, knowledge systems, and socio-political positions; and assess the feasibility and impacts of proposed alternatives for better meeting grassroots spatial data needs. I contend that the needs and challenges of these stakeholders are unique from those of other users, but are nonetheless rooted in central dilemmas of spatial data handling, and so might be addressed through stronger engagement with GIScience research in this arena.

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“…Environmental planning requires the integration and synthesis of scattered information from numerous sources and coupling of this information for problem solving and decision-making (Fedra, 1993;Elmes et al, 2004). The emphasis is on increasing the use of local geospatial knowledge through local stakeholders' participation (Steinmann et al, 2006).…”

Section: Participation In Environmental Planningmentioning

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A Geospatial Web Application to Map Observations and Opinions in Environmental Planning

Rinner¹,

Kumari²,

Mavedati³

2023

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The geospatial Web enables virtually everyone to contribute to the growing col-lection of geographically referenced information on the World-Wide Web. In this chapter, we present a Google Maps-based tool that enables Web users to contribute two types of informa-tion: annotations and their reference locations. We further differentiate annotations into obser-vations and opinions regarding specific places. The potential of this approach for integrating lo-cal knowledge into environmental planning was assessed by conducting an online map-based discussion of organic farming among expert stakeholders in the Kawarthas area in Central On-tario, Canada. The discussion contents shed light on the participants’ perceptions of the organic food market. Moreover, the experiment demonstrated how a map-based discussion forum can be useful for obtaining public input on planning and policy issues.

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Local Knowledge Doesn’t Grow on Trees: Community-Integrated Geographic Information Systems and Rural Community Self-Definition

Cited by 9 publications

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The credibility of volunteered geographic information

The credibility of volunteered geographic information

Grassroots groups as stakeholders in spatial data infrastructures: challenges and opportunities for local data development and sharing

A Geospatial Web Application to Map Observations and Opinions in Environmental Planning

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