The Participatory Geoweb - VGI

Interview with Dr. Johnson Quebec Geoweb Research Project

ptudge — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:52:09 +0000

In this podcast-video, Sophia an undergraduate environmental studies student at McGill University interviews, Dr. Peter Johnson a post-doctoral fellow at McGill University about his research. Dr. Johnson draws on his work in Quebec working with several government agencies, and specifically in the rural region of Acton vale to illustrate both the challenges and opportunities of these geospatial technologies in decision-making and citizen engagement,

Interview with Pierre Beaudreau: Developing Geoweb Tools with Government

ptudge — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:51:12 +0000

In this interview, Pierre Beaudreau a third year undergraduate in Geography discusses how municipal governments are looking to use GeoWeb tools for rural development and to increase public involvement in decision-making. Drawing from a partnership project with the rural municipality of Acton Vale, Quebec, he explains the Geoweb, its function, motivation and challenges associated with government adoption along with his own challenges in developing interactive web tools with government.

GeoWeb Summer Series 2011: Interview with Korbin daSilva

ptudge — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:20:25 +0000

In this interview Korbin daSilva discusses his Masters research on Participatory Urban Design and how the use of 3D tools, such as his Community Design Tool can provide a way for citizens to more effectively partake in the process of designing sustainable neighborhoods through government to public participatory processes

GeowebReviewPaper

admin — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 05:12:39 +0000

Renee, Nama,

Here is just a rough list of references to get us started. Feel free to delete as required. My reference software doesn't seem to like including all the author names, but you get the point. Here is a link to an archive that has each as a .pdf

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/551548/Geoweb.zip

Akehurst. User generated content: the use of blogs for tourism organisations and tourism consumers. Service Business (2009) vol. 3 pp. 51-61

Amin. Local community on trial. Economy and society (2005) vol. 34 (4) pp. 612-633

Arnstein. A ladder of citizen participation. Journal of the American Institute of Planners (1969) vol. 35 pp. 216-224

Ballas et al. Building a spatial microsimulation-based planning support system for local policy making. Environment and Planning A (2007) vol. 39 (10) pp. 2482-2499

Becu et al. Participatory computer simulation to support collective decision-making: Potential and limits of stakeholder involvement. Land Use Policy (2008) vol. 25 pp. 498-509

Carver et al. Developing and Testing an Online Tool for Teaching GIS Concepts Applied to Spatial Decision-making. Journal of Geography in Higher Education (2004) vol. 28 (3) pp. 425-438

Carver. The future of participatory approaches using geographic information: developing a research agenda for the 21st century. URISA Journal (2003) vol. 15 (1) pp. 61-71

Carver et al. Public participation, GIS, and cyberdemocracy: evaluating on-line spatial decision support systems. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (2001) vol. 28 (6) pp. 907-921

Carver et al. Accessing Geographical Information Systems over the World Wide Web: Improving public participation in environmental decision-making. Information Infrastructure and Policy (2000) vol. 6 pp. 157-170

Chadwick. Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in Era of Informational Exuberance. ISJLP (2008)

Cinnamon and Schuurman. Injury surveillance in low-resource settings using Geospatial and Social Web technologies. International Journal of Health Geographics (2010) vol. 9 pp. 25

Connor. A new ladder of citizen participation. National Civic Review (1988) vol. 77 (3) pp. 249-257

Corbett and Keller. An Analytical Framework to Examine Empowerment Associated with Participatory Geographic Information …. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic … (2005) vol. 40 (4) pp. 91-102

Cormode and Krishnamurthy. Key differences between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. First Monday (2008)

Craglia et al. Next-Generation Digital Earth. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (2008) vol. 3 pp. 146-167

Crampton. Cartography: maps 2.0. Progress in Human Geography (2009) vol. 33 (1) pp. 91-100

Crampton. Can Peasants Map? Map Mashups, The Geo-Spatial Web and the Future of Information. Locative Media Conference (2007) pp. 1-37

Dunn. Participatory GIS a people's GIS?. Progress in Human Geography (2007) vol. 31 pp. 616-637

Ellul et al. A Mechanism to Create Community Maps for Non-Technical Users. (2009) pp. 1-6

Ellul et al. Beyond the Internet Increasing Participation in Community Events by Text Messaging. (2009) pp. 1-10

Elwood. Geographic information science: emerging research on the societal implications of the geospatial web. Progress in Human Geography (2009) pp. 1-9

Elwood. Geographic Information Science: new geovisualization technologies--emerging questions and linkages with GIScience research. Progress in Human Geography (2009) vol. 53 pp. 256-263

Elwood. Volunteered geographic information: key questions, concepts and methods to guide emerging research and practice. GeoJournal (2008) vol. 72 (3) pp. 133-135

Elwood. Grassroots groups as stakeholders in spatial data infrastructures: challenges and opportunities for local data development and sharing. International Journal of Geographical Information Science (2008) vol. 22 (1) pp. 71-90

Elwood. Volunteered geographic information: future research directions motivated by critical, participatory, and feminist GIS. GeoJournal (2008) vol. 72 (3) pp. 173-183

Esri. The GeoWeb: Spatially Enabling the Next Generation Web. (2006) pp. 1-10

Evans et al. Democratic input into the nuclear waste disposal problem: The influence of geographical data on decision making examined through a Web-based GIS. Journal of Geographical Systems (2004) vol. 6 (2) pp. 1-16

Flanagin and Metzger. The credibility of volunteered geographic information. GeoJournal (2008) vol. 72 (3) pp. 137-148

Ganapati. Using Geographic Information Systems to Increase Citizen Engagement. IBM Center for The Business of Government (2010) pp. 1-46

Goodchild and Glennon. Crowdsourcing geographic information for disaster response: a research frontier. International Journal of Digital Earth (2010) vol. 99999 (1) pp. 1-11

Goodchild. Commentary: whither VGI?. GeoJournal (2008) vol. 72 (3) pp. 239-244

Goodchild. Citizens as Voluntary Sensors: Spatial Data Infrastructure in the World of Web 2.0. International Journal of Spatial Data Infrastructures Research (2007) vol. 2 (24-32)

Gorman. Is academia missing the boat for the GeoWeb revolution? A response to Harvey's commentary. Environment and Planning B - Planning and Design (2007) vol. 34 pp. 949-952

Gouveia and Fonseca. New approaches to environmental monitoring: the use of ICT to explore volunteered geographic information. GeoJournal (2008) vol. 72 (3) pp. 185-197

Haklay et al. Web mapping 2.0: the Neogeography of the Geoweb. Geography Compass (2008) vol. 2 (6) pp. 2011-2039

Hasse and Milne. Participatory Approaches and Geographical Information Systems (PAGIS) in Tourism Planning. Tourism Geographies (2005) vol. 7 (3) pp. 272-289

Hudson-Smith et al. The Neogeography of Virtual Cities: Digital Mirrors into a Recursive World. Handbook of Research on Urban Informatics (2009) pp. 270-290

Hudson-Smith et al. NeoGeography and Web 2.0: concepts, tools and applications. Journal of Location Based Services (2009) vol. 3 (2) pp. 118-145

Hudson-Smith et al. Mapping for the Masses: Accessing Web 2.0 through Crowdsourcing. CASA Working Papers Series (2008) pp. 1-19

Hudson-Smith. The Renaissance of Geographical Information: Neogeography, Gaming and Second Life. CASA Working Papers Series (2008) pp. 1-16

Jankowski. Towards participatory geographic information systems for community-based environmental decision making. Journal of Environmental Management (2009) vol. 90 pp. 1966-1971

Kingston. Public Participation in Local Policy Decision-making: The Role of Web-based Mapping. The Cartographic Journal (2007) vol. 44 (2) pp. 138-144

Kingston et al. Web-based public participation geographical information systems: an aid to local environmental decision-making. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2000) vol. 24 (2) pp. 109-125

Komarkova et al. Usability of GeoWeb sites: case study of Czech regional authorities web sites. Business Information Systems: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (2007)

Komarkova et al. Heuristic Evaluation of Usability of GeoWeb Sites. LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (2007)

Lee et al. Web 2.0 and opportunities for small businesses. Service Business (2008)

Lessig. Free Culture. (2004) pp. 1-352

Maguire. GeoWeb 2.0: implications for ESDI. Proceedings of the 12th EC-GIGIS Workshop (2005)

Maiyo et al. Collaborative post-disaster damage mapping via GEO web services. Geographic Information and Cartography for Risk and Crisis Management: Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (2010)

Manzo and Pitkins. Using Maps to Promote Health Equity. (2009) pp. 1-34

Maptogether.org. The Illustrated Guide to Nonprofit GIS and Online Mapping. (2010) pp. 1-46

O'Connor. User-generated content and travel: A case study on Tripadvisor. com. Information and Communication Technologies in Tourism 2008 (2008)

O'Reilly. What Is Web 2.0. O'Reilly (2005) pp. 1-17

Osimo. Web 2.0 in government: why and how. Institute for Prospectice Technological Studies (IPTS) (2008)

Rinner and Bird. Evaluating community engagement through argumentation maps—a public participation GIS case study. Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design (2009) vol. 36 (4) pp. 588-601

Rinner et al. The use of Web 2.0 concepts to support deliberation in spatial decision-making. Computers (2008)

Rinner. Web-based spatial decision support: Status and research directions. Journal of Geographic Information and Decision Analysis (2003) vol. 7 (1) pp. 14-31

Rinner. Argumentation maps: GIS-based discussion support for on-line planning. Environment and Planning B (2001) vol. 28 pp. 847-863

Rouse et al. Participating in the geospatial web: collaborative mapping, social networks and participatory GIS. The Geospatial Web (2007)

Schegg et al. An exploratory field study of Web 2.0 in Tourism. Information Technologies in Tourism (2008)

Sidlar and Rinner. Utility assessment of a map-based online geo-collaboration tool. Journal of Environmental Management (2009) vol. 90 pp. 2020-2026

Sieber. Geoweb for Social Change. Position Paper (2007)

Strohmaier. The Web 2.0 way of learning with technologies. International Journal of Learning Technology (2007) vol. 3 (1) pp. 87-107

Sui. The wikification of GIS and its consequences: Or Angelina Jolie’s new tattoo and the future of GIS. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems (2008) vol. 32 pp. 1-5

Tritter and McCallum. The snakes and ladders of user involvement: moving beyond Arnstein. Health Policy (2006) vol. 76 (2) pp. 156-168

Tulloch. Is VGI participation? From vernal pools to video games. GeoJournal (2008) vol. 72 (3) pp. 161-171

Wunsch-Vincent and Vickery. Participative Web: User-Created Content. OECD Committee for Information, Computer and Communications Policy (2007) pp. 1-74

Zhao and Coleman. GeoDF: Towards a SDI-based PPGIS application for E-Governance. Proceedings of the GSDI-9 Conference (2006) pp. 6-10

Nama Budhathoki's PhD Dissertation Abstract

ptudge — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:36:43 +0000

Nama Budhathoki recently joined the McGill node of Team 41 as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. His recent dissertation abstract on VGI from his PhD dissertation at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is posted below.

Welcome Nama, we are so happy you joined our team!

Graduating student releases UNB report on volunteered geographic information

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:43:26 +0000

Our graduate student, Bots Sabone, has finished her Masters of Science in Engineering at the University of New Brunswick. Her research was deemed of sufficient quality to be produced as a UNB technical report.

Sabone, Botshelo. 2009. Assessing Alternative Technologies for Use of Volunteered Geographic Information in Authoritative Databases. M.Sc.E. thesis, Department of Geodesy and Geomatics Engineering Technical Report No. 269, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, 117 pp.

Allen presentation at GEOIDE 2009

admin — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:39:20 +0000

Transitioning To The Geoweb: The Changing Face Of Online Community Atlases, Patrick Allen, Jon Corbett This poster will present on a research project that investigates the status of online community atlases in British Columbia hosted by the Community Mapping Network (CMN). Since 1997, community atlases have been developed on the premise that emerging geographical information technologies (GIT) can facilitate participation in integrated and effective community land‐use planning and implementation. The majority of atlases on the CMN are the result of collaborative efforts involving government and non‐governmental partners. They often seek to gather and distribute land‐use related information. Using online and telephone interviews, the researchers surveyed community atlas managers and coordinators for 22 of 62 CMN hosted atlases. The survey sought to determine the current status of these atlases and gain insight into future directions for use, presentation and management of spatial data. As a sub‐component of this research, we reviewed the existing and potential role for incorporating volunteered geographic information (VGI) into existing atlases, and determine issues that might emerge relating to user engagement and the management of VGI data. Of the atlases reviewed, most are now stagnant and unused; in many cases no changes or revisions have been made in over a year. Furthermore, no evaluations have been conducted on the existing data presented. Many respondents indicate that though their initial goal of providing open access to data has been met, the limited public use of the atlases does not justify the continued time, effort and funding required to manage the atlases over the long‐term. New atlases are still being developed with an awareness of these challenges and thus are increasingly attempting to be more user‐friendly, self managed and employ low cost methods of making information available and manageable. There is a growing interest the potential of the Geoweb to integrate free and open source software into atlas design, and to include interactive tools in order to engage users in accessing and contributing their own data to the atlases. However, there does not yet appear to be clarity on the best approach or model to follow in the ever changing world of GIT.

The Socio-Economic Dimension of Neogeography ( A Framework to Evaluate VGI Initiatives)

anis — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:16:35 +0000

Success of open-source software development as; Linux, consumer-driven business development E-Bay, and most recently user-developed production of knowledge base Wikipedia have inspired the specialist and the users of geospatial data and mapping.

Continuation of this success is leading the science of mapping towards new geospatial data creation and diffusion processes, like wikicarto, wikiGIS, geoblog and more generally Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). VGI is considered the newest form of Public Participation Geographic Information System (PPGIS).

Relying only on GIS experts neglects the fact that involving interested users is an important step towards open and democratic approach for PGIS. Local
people have usually better knowledge about the area of interest, which is crucial for accurate decisions.

These new ways of providing geospatial information through the Web techniques are part of Geospatial components of the Web2.0 and an example of Neogeography. Neogeography is related to people using and creating their own maps, on their own terms, by combining elements of existing toolset.

Neogeography and the GeoWeb are going to be important contributory subject matter of future network society and becoming a major issue for GIScience. Society will be benefited both socially and economically. Nothing is really known about the potential benefits. It is essential to invent a methodology for the assessment of the benefits. Currently I am doing a PhD research which will try to give a dimension of socio-economic benefits. The main research will be carried out on the field of VGI and PPGIS, an emphasis on the socio-economic evaluation of those two fields in combination with Neogeography.

I am expecting your valuable opinion and suggestions for the successful completion of my PhD research.