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Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 2 – Google Local Guides

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The first week of the “Introduction to Citizen Science and Scientific Crowdsourcing” course was dedicated to an introduction to the field of citizen science using the history, examples and typologies to demonstrate the breadth of the field. The second week was dedicated to the second half of the course name – crowdsourcing in general, and its … Continue reading Citizen Science & Scientific Crowdsourcing – week 2 – Google Local Guides

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citizen science, crowdsourced geographic information, Crowdsourcing, GIS, GIS Usability, Google, Google Maps, OpenStreetMap, teaching, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, Web 2.0

Crowdsourced: navigation & location-based services

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Once you switch the smartphone off from email and social media network, you can notice better when and how you’re crowdsourced. By this, I mean that use of applications to contribute data is sometimes clearer as the phone becomes less of communication technology and more of information technology (while most of the time it is … Continue reading Crowdsourced: navigation & location-based services

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GIS, GIS Usability, Google Maps, GPS, Navigation, SatNav, TripAdvisor, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, Waze

How geoweb fossils become unusable

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Once upon a time, Streetmap.co.uk was one of the most popular Web Mapping sites in the UK, competing successfully with the biggest rival at the time, Multimap. Moreover, it was ranked second in The Daily Telegraph list of leading mapping sites in October 2000 and described at ‘Must be one of the most useful services on […]

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GI usability, GIS, GIS Usability, Google Maps, Human–computer interaction, interaction, Usability, web mapping

Usability, SatNavs and Which?

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The Consumers’ Association Which? magazine  is probably not the first place to turn to when you look for usability studies. Especially not if you’re interested in computer technology – for that, there are sources such as PC Magazine on the consumer side, and professional magazines such as Interactions from Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer-Human […]

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GIS Usability, Google Maps, Human–computer interaction, OpenStreetMap, Usability, usability of GI, Usability testing, VGI