The Future of the Spatial Information Infrastructure

Onsrud, Harlan J.; Taupier, Richard; Wiggins, Lyna L.; Poore, Barbara S.; Rugg, Robert D.

doi:10.1201/9781420038330.ch8

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“…For instance, consider the expressed concerns about ensuring consistency and reliability in volunteered information. Research on SDIs, data standards, and metadata standards has well documented that these existing structures are quite limited in their capacity to foster consistence in traditionallyconceived and managed spatial data (Nedovic-Budic et al 2004;Onsrud et al 2005;Schuurman and Leszczynski 2006). The potential heterogeneity of VGI and the openness of many platforms for collecting and visualizing it may mean that existing structures and practices for ensuring spatial data consistency and completeness are even less appropriate in this context.…”

Section: Guiding Vgi Research With Propositions From Critical Particmentioning

confidence: 99%

Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS

2008

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New interactive web services are dramatically altering the way in which ordinary citizens can create digital spatial data and maps, individually and collectively, to produce new forms of digital spatial data that some term 'volunteered geographic information' (VGI). This article examines the early literature on this phenomenon, illustrating its shared propositions that these new technologies are part of shifts in the social and technological processes through which digital spatial data are produced, with accompanying implications for the content and characteristics of geospatial data, and the social and political practices promoted through their use. I illustrate how these debates about VGI conceive of spatial data as socially embedded, and suggest ways in which future research might productively draw upon conceptualizations from participatory, feminist, and critical GIS research that have emerged from similar foundations.

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Section: Guiding Vgi Research With Propositions From Critical Particmentioning

confidence: 99%