Category: H.O.T Task Manager

Citizen Science 2015 (second day)

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After a very full first day, the second day opened with a breakfast that provided opportunity to meet the board of the Citizen Science Association (CSA), and to have a nice way to talk with people who got up early (starting at 7am) for another full day of citizen science. Around the breakfast tables, new […]

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citizen science, citizen science association, community, Conference, CSA, data collection, Extreme Citizen Science, H.O.T, H.O.T Task Manager, ODK, OpenStreetMap, OSM, social media, VGI

International Encyclopedia of Geography – Quality Assurance of VGI

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The Association of American Geographers is coordinating an effort to create an International Encyclopedia of Geography. Plans started in 2010, with an aim to see the 15 volumes project published in 2015 or 2016. Interestingly, this shows that publishers and scholars are still seeing the value in creating subject-specific encyclopedias. On the other hand, the weird […]

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citizen science, Concepts, Crowdsourcing, GIS, GIS Usability, H.O.T Task Manager, OpenStreetMap, quality assurance, Spatial Data Quality, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, WheelMap