Public participation in GIS via mobile applications

Brovelli, M. A.; Minghini, Marco; Zamboni, Giorgio

doi:10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2015.04.002

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“…Meanwhile, the Towns Conquer game [21] was developed using Android SDK and ArcGIS SDK on the mobile client side, web services using PHP and SQL Server database on the server side. Another generic system architecture suitable for public participation using free open source software and mobile apps was studied [46,47]. In this system architecture, ODK Collect and the ODK Aggregate modules store data with a PostgreSQL database.…”

Section: Existing Mobile and Web Applications For Toponym Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Citizen Science Approach for Collecting Toponyms

Perdana

Ostermann

2018

IJGI

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Abstract:The emerging trends and technologies of surveying and mapping potentially enable local experts to contribute and share their local geographical knowledge of place names (toponyms). We can see the increasing numbers of toponyms in digital platforms, such as OpenStreetMap, Facebook Place Editor, Swarm Foursquare, and Google Local Guide. On the other hand, government agencies keep working to produce concise and complete gazetteers. Crowdsourced geographic information and citizen science approaches offer a new paradigm of toponym collection. This paper addresses issues in the advancing toponym practice. First, we systematically examined the current state of toponym collection and handling practice by multiple stakeholders, and we identified a recurring set of problems. Secondly, we developed a citizen science approach, based on a crowdsourcing level of participation, to collect toponyms. Thirdly, we examined the implementation in the context of an Indonesian case study. The results show that public participation in toponym collection is an approach with the potential to solve problems in toponym handling, such as limited human resources, accessibility, and completeness of toponym information. The lessons learnt include the knowledge that the success of this approach depends on the willingness of the government to advance their workflow, the degree of collaboration between stakeholders, and the presence of a communicative approach in introducing and sharing toponym guidelines with the community.Keywords: citizen science; volunteered geographic information (VGI); toponym; crowdsourced data collection; data quality Opportunities for New Approaches to Collect Place NamesPlace names (known as toponyms) are an indispensable component of our communication about geographic features or regions, both natural and man-made [1,2]. They serve many purposes, including the obvious need for unambiguous identification for navigation, but also for current territorial claims and managing a society's past (e.g., to compare the renaming of streets or even entire cities following a regime change) [3][4][5][6][7][8]. Toponyms frequently have deeper meanings, often involving complicated semantics related to language and history [9][10][11], but many toponyms also describe the features they name. Some example toponyms from Indonesia are derived from folklore tales (Mount Tangkubanperahu, Banyuwangi), historical names (Jakarta from Jayakarta), or names of persons that have been adjusted to the local language (Malioboro from General Malborough, or Sampur from Zandvoort) [12][13][14]. Other (natural) features can cross multiple linguistic regions, for example, the river "Danube" has several names: "Donau" in Germany and Austria, "Dunaj" in Slovakia, "Duna" in Hungary, "Dunav" in Croatia and Serbia, "Dunav" and " On the other hand, government agencies p working to produce concise and complete gazetteers. Crowdsourced geographic information d citizen science approaches offer a new paradigm of toponym collection. This paper addresses ues ...

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Section: Existing Mobile and Web Applications For Toponym Collectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Citizen Science Approach for Collecting Toponyms

Perdana

Ostermann

2018

IJGI

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“…Em contrapartida, foram desenvolvidos projetos de SIG móvel que seguem a política Open Source, capazes de trabalhar também de forma fácil e intuitiva na realização de trabalhos de campo, a exemplo do BeeGIS (De Donatis et al, 2010), do GIS Cloud´s Mobile Data Collection (Kalam et al, 2016), GvSIG Mobile (Moutahir e Agazzi, 2012), KoBo ToolBox (Deniau et al, 2017), GeoODK (Brovelli et al, 2015), QField (Moreri et al, 2017) e do QGIS (CarrascoLetelier, 2015).…”

Section: Geotecnologias Livres E Dispositivos Móveis Na Coleta De Dadosunclassified

O Uso De Geotecnologias Livres: Qgis E Epicollect No Levantamento De Dados Em Geociências

2018

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RESUMOA popularização dos dispositivos móveis suscitou a divulgação de diversos aplicativos voltados ao geoprocessamento. Esse cenário vem a impulsionar um caminho colaborativo em torno dos projetos de softwares livres. O presente estudo teve por objetivo mostrar uma metodologia autônoma para o levantamento de dados em campo de pesquisa em geociências a partir das geotecnologias livres QGIS para Android e EpiCollect. O uso dessas ferramentas computacionais provou ser eficiente para a coleta de dados e navegação em tempo real em campo. A combinação delas também mostrou a versatilidade de aplicá-la em atividades acadêmicas e profissionais sem custos extras.Palavras-chave: Geoprocessamento livre, QGIS, EpiCollect, metodologia, coleta de dados, geociências. THE USE OF OPEN SOURCE GEOTECHNOLOGIES: QGIS AND EPICOLLECT ON THE DATA ACQUISITION IN GEOSCIENCES ABSTRACTThe popularity of mobile devices has been encouraged a lot of geoprocessing applications development. This scenery is inciting a collaborative way around free softwares. This study shows a methodology to collect field data using free geotechnologies like QGIS for Android and EpiCollect. The use of these computational tools was efficient to data collection and real time navigation in field. This tools combined use shown the versatility to apply to both academic and professional activities with no extra costs.

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“…Participation biases can result from various causes. The digital divide, socio-economic factors, demographic distribution and individual perceptions can all have an influence on volunteer contributions Brovelli et al, 2016b). Here protocols should act preemptively and hinder the appearance of biases.…”

Section: Data Collectionmentioning

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Mapping and the citizen sensor

Ostermann

2018

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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Public participation in GIS via mobile applications

Cited by 76 publications

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A Citizen Science Approach for Collecting Toponyms

A Citizen Science Approach for Collecting Toponyms

O Uso De Geotecnologias Livres: Qgis E Epicollect No Levantamento De Dados Em Geociências

Mapping and the citizen sensor

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