Journal
SPATIAL STATISTICS
Volume 1, Issue -, Pages 110-120Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2012.03.002
Keywords
Geographic information; Crowdsourcing; Data quality; Volunteered geographic information
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- US National Science Foundation [0849910]
- US Army Research Office [W911NF-09-1-0302]
- Division Of Behavioral and Cognitive Sci
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie [0849910] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a phenomenon of recent years, offering an alternative mechanism for the acquisition and compilation of geographic information. As such it offers substantial advantages, but suffers from a general lack of quality assurance. We discuss the issues involved in the determination of quality for geospatial data, and trace the history of research on VGI quality. We describe three approaches to quality assurance, which we term the crowd-sourcing, social, and geographic approaches respectively. We discuss the advantages and limitations of each, and the research that will be needed to operationalize the geographic approach. (C) 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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