Category: OpenStreetMap

New paper: The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique

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Considering how long Reneé Sieber  (McGill University) and I know each other, and working in similar areas (participatory GIS, participatory geoweb, open data, socio-technical aspects of GIS, environmental information), I’m very pleased that a collaborative paper that we developed together is finally published. The paper ‘The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique‘ took some … Continue reading New paper: The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique

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Albert Borgmann, citizen science, Concepts, GIS, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Papers, Philosophy of Technology, PPGIS, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

New paper: The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique

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Considering how long Reneé Sieber  (McGill University) and I know each other, and working in similar areas (participatory GIS, participatory geoweb, open data, socio-technical aspects of GIS, environmental information), I’m very pleased that a collaborative paper that we developed together is finally published. The paper ‘The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique‘ took some … Continue reading New paper: The epistemology(s) of volunteered geographic information: a critique

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Albert Borgmann, citizen science, Concepts, GIS, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Papers, Philosophy of Technology, PPGIS, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Building Centre – from Mapping to Making

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The London based Building Centre organised an evening event – from Mapping to Making –  which looked at the “radical evolution in the making and meaning of maps is influencing creative output. New approaches to data capture and integration – from drones to crowd-sourcing – suggest maps are changing their impact on our working life, … Continue reading Building Centre – from Mapping to Making

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Building Centre, citizen science, Conference, Environmental information, Geographic information science, GIS, mapping, mapping for change, Mapping to Making, OpenStreetMap, ordnance survey, Participatory Mapping

Data and the City workshop (day 2)

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The second day of the Data and City Workshop (here are the notes from day 1) started with the session Data Models and the City. Pouria Amirian started with Service Oriented Design and Polyglot Binding for Efficient Sharing and Analysing of Data in Cities. The starting point is that management of the city need data, and therefore … Continue reading Data and the City workshop (day 2)

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Big Data, Citizen Data Science, citizen science, Conference, GIS, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Urban Data

Data and the City workshop (day 1)

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The workshop, which is part of the Programmable City project (which is funded by the European Research Council), is held in Maynooth on today and tomorrow. The papers and discussions touched multiple current aspects of technology and the city: Big Data, Open Data, crowdsourcing, and critical studies of data and software. The notes below are … Continue reading Data and the City workshop (day 1)

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Big Data, citizen science, Conference, Data Infrastructure, data integrity, digital citizenship, European Research Council, Open Data, OpenStreetMap

Beyond quantification: a role for citizen science and community science in a smart city

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The Data and the City workshop will run on the 31st August and 1st September 2015, in Maynooth University, Ireland. It is part of the Programmable City project, led by Prof Rob Kitchin. My contribution to the workshop is titled Beyond quantification: a role for citizen science and community science in a smart city and is extending a short article from … Continue reading Beyond quantification: a role for citizen science and community science in a smart city

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Big Data, citizen cyberscience, citizen science, Concepts, Data and the City, Environmental information, Extreme Citizen Science, OpenStreetMap, Papers, PPGIS, public lab, Smart Cities, Smart city, VGI, volunteer computing

OpenStreetMap: London Building Coverage

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OpenStreetMap is still surprisingly incomplete when it comes to showing buildings for the London area, this is a real contrast to other places (e.g. Birmingham, New York City, Paris) when it comes to completeness of buildings, this is despite some good datasets (e.g Ordnance Survey OpenMap Local) including building outlines. It’s one reason why I … Continue reading OpenStreetMap: London Building Coverage →

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Citizen Science and Policy – possible frameworks

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Back in February, my report ‘Citizen Science & Policy: a European Perspective‘ was published by the Wilson Centre in the US. As I was trying to make sense of the relevance of citizen science to policy making, I used a framework that included the level of geography, area of policy making and the type of … Continue reading Citizen Science and Policy – possible frameworks

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citizen science, Concepts, crowdsourced geographic information, Crowdsourcing, EEA, Environmental information, EPA Network, european environment agency, OpenStreetMap, policy, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Tube Line Closure Map

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The Tube Line Closure Map accesses Transport for London’s REST API for line disruption information (both live and planned) and uses the information there to animate a geographical vector map of the network, showing closed sections as lines flashing dots, with solid lines for unaffected parts. The idea is similar to TfL’s official disruption map, … Continue reading Tube Line Closure Map →

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Data Graphics, london, Mashups, OpenLayers, OpenStreetMap

COST Energic Summer School on VGI and Citizen Science in Malta

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COST Energic organised a second summer school that is dedicated to Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) and citizen science. This time, the school was run by the Institute for Climate Change & Sustainable Development of the University of Malta. with almost 40 participants from across Europe and beyond (Brazil, New Zealand), and, of course, participants from … Continue reading COST Energic Summer School on VGI and Citizen Science in Malta

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citizen science, COST ENERGIC, COST IC1203, data collection, DIY electronics, GIS, Malta, OpenStreetMap, Participatory Sensing, PPGIS, Summer school, University of Malta, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

COST ENERGIC meeting – Tallinn 21-22 May

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The COST Energic network is progressing in its 3rd year. The previous post showed one output from the action – a video that describe the links between volunteered geographic information and indigenous knowledge. The people who came to the meeting represent the variety of interest in crwodsourced geographic information, from people with background in Geography, … Continue reading COST ENERGIC meeting – Tallinn 21-22 May

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Conference, cost, COST ENERGIC, COST IC1203, GIS, OpenStreetMap, Research projects, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Street Trees of Southwark

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Above is an excerpt of a large, coloured-dot based graphic showing the locations of street trees in Rotherhithe, part of the London Borough of Southwark in London, as released by them to the OpenStreetMap database back in 2010. You can download the full version (12MB PDF). Street trees are trees on public land managed by … Continue reading Street Trees of Southwark →

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Data Graphics, london, OpenStreetMap

AAG 2015 – day 4 notes – Citizen Science & OpenStreetMap Studies

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The last day of AAG 2015 is about citizen science and OpenStreetMap studies. The session Beyond motivation? Understanding enthusiasm in citizen science and volunteered geographic information was organised together with Hilary Geoghegan. We were interest to ‘explore and debate current research and practice moving beyond motivation, to consider the associated enthusiasm, materials and meanings of participating in citizen … Continue reading AAG 2015 – day 4 notes – Citizen Science & OpenStreetMap Studies

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AAG 2015, AAG2015, Cartography, citizen science, Conference, Enthusiasm, Extreme Citizen Science, GIS, Google, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Papers, PPGIS, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, Wikimapia

AAG 2015 notes – day 3 – Civic Technology, Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing and mapping

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The sessions today covered Civic technology, citizen science, and the new directions in mapping – Open Source/Crowdsourcing/Big Data First, Civic technology: governance, equity and inclusion considerations, with Pamela Robinson – Ryerson University (Chair) and Peter A. Johnson – University of Waterloo, Teresa Scassa – University of Ottawa and Jon Corbett – University of British Columbia-Okanagan. The Discussant is Betsy Donald – … Continue reading AAG 2015 notes – day 3 – Civic Technology, Citizen Science, Crowdsourcing and mapping

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AAG, AAG 2015, AAG2015, citizen science, Civic technolog, Conference, Environmental information, GIS, Hackathons, Neogeography, Neoliberalism, OpenStreetMap, Papers, VGI

AAG sessions – Critical GIScience, GeoWeb and Citizen Science

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The Association of American Geographers conference is just around the corner – between 21 and 24 April, held in Chicago. I’ve already marked some sessions that I think worth noting (and was involved in the organisation of several sessions, too). Here is a list of interesting sessions, following suggestion to do so by David O’Sullivan and … Continue reading AAG sessions – Critical GIScience, GeoWeb and Citizen Science

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AAG 2015, Association of American Geographers, citizen science, Conference, critical GIS, critical GIScience, GIS, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Papers, participatory GIS, PPGIS, VGI

UCGIS webinar [Geographic information | Citizen] Science: reciprocal opportunities

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At the request of Diana Sinton, the Executive Director of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS), I gave the seminar talk about the linkage between Geographic Information Science and Citizen Science. A detailed description of the talk and the slides are available here. The webinar announcement is at http://ucgis.org/ucgis-webinars/geographic-information-citizen-science-reciprocal-opportunities. The webinar was recorded, so … Continue reading UCGIS webinar [Geographic information | Citizen] Science: reciprocal opportunities

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citizen science, Extreme Citizen Science, Geographic information science, GIS, GIS Usability, GIScience, OpenStreetMap, UCGIS, University Consortium for Geographic Information Science, VGI, Webinar

OpenStreetMap in GIScience – Experiences, Research, and Applications

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A new book out about OpenStreetMap and Geographic Information Science. The book, which was edited by Jamal Jokar Arsanjani, Alexander Zipf, Peter Mooney, Marco Helbich  is “OpenStreetMap in GISciene : Experiences, Research, and applications” contains 16 chapters on different aspects of OpenStreetMap in GIScience including 1) Data Management and Quality, 2) Social Context, 3) Network Modeling and … Continue reading OpenStreetMap in GIScience – Experiences, Research, and Applications

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citizen science, critical GIScience, Crowdsourcing, Data Management, Geographic information science, GIS, GIScience, Land Management, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Papers, PPGIS, VGI

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

OpenStreetMap studies (and why VGI not equal OSM)

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As far as I can tell, Nelson et al. 2006 ‘Towards development of a high quality public domain global roads database‘ and Taylor & Caquard 2006 Cybercartography: Maps and Mapping in the Information Era are the first peer review papers that mention OpenStreetMap. Since then, OpenStreetMap received plenty of academic attention. More ‘conservative’ search engines such as ScienceDirect […]

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GIS, GIScience, OpenStreetMap, OSM, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Happy 10th Birthday, OpenStreetMap!

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Today, OpenStreetMap celebrates 10 years of operation as counted from the date of registration. I’ve heard about the project when it was in early stages, mostly because I knew Steve Coast when I was studying for my Ph.D. at UCL.  As a result, I was also able to secured the first ever research grant that focused […]

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GeoWeb, GIS, Linux, mapping, Neogeography, OpenStreetMap, OSM, Participatory Mapping, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, Wikipedia

Crowdsourced Geographic Information in Government

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Today marks the publication of the report ‘crowdsourced geographic information in government‘. The report is the result of a collaboration that started in the autumn of last year, when the World Bank Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery(GFDRR)  requested to carry out a study of the way crowdsourced geographic information is used by governments. The […]

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citizen science, Crowdsourcing, Disaster response, GFDRR, GIS, Government, Open Data, OpenStreetMap, Papers, PPGIS, Report, Research projects, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information, World Bank

Upscience talk at Oxford’s Martin School

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About a month ago, Francois Grey put out a suggestion that we should replace the term ‘bottom-up’  science with upscience  – do read his blog-post for a fuller explanation. I have met Francois in New York in April, when he discussed with me the ideas behind the concept, and why it is worth trying to use it. […]

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citizen cyberscience, citizen science, civic science, ExCiteS, Extreme Citizen Science, OpenStreetMap, Oxford Martin School, Talk, up-science, upscience, VGI

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) volunteering impact report

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Thursday marked the launch of The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) report on volunteering impact where they summarised a three year project that explored motivations, changes in pro-environmental behaviour, wellbeing and community resilience. The report is worth a read as it goes beyond the direct impact on the local environment of TCV activities, and demonstrates how involvement in environmental volunteering can […]

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citizen science, Conference, Motivation, OpenStreetMap, Research projects, TCV, The Conservation Volunteers, VGI, Volunteering

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) volunteering impact report

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Thursday marked the launch of The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) report on volunteering impact where they summarised a three year project that explored motivations, changes in pro-environmental behaviour, wellbeing and community resilience. The report is worth a read as it goes beyond the direct impact on the local environment of TCV activities, and demonstrates how involvement in environmental volunteering can […]

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citizen science, Conference, Motivation, OpenStreetMap, Research projects, TCV, The Conservation Volunteers, VGI, Volunteering

The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) volunteering impact report

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Thursday marked the launch of The Conservation Volunteers (TCV) report on volunteering impact where they summarised a three year project that explored motivations, changes in pro-environmental behaviour, wellbeing and community resilience. The report is worth a read as it goes beyond the direct impact on the local environment of TCV activities, and demonstrates how involvement in environmental volunteering can […]

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citizen science, Conference, Motivation, OpenStreetMap, Research projects, TCV, The Conservation Volunteers, VGI, Volunteering

Albert Borgmann’s Philosophy of Technology, VGI & Citizen Science

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Some ideas take long time to mature into a form that you are finally happy to share them. This is an example for such thing. I got interested in the area of Philosophy of Technology during my PhD studies, and continue to explore it since. During this journey, I found a lot of inspiration and links […]

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Borgmann, citizen cyberscience, citizen science, Concepts, Cultural Information, Extreme Citizen Science, Focal Things and Practices, GIS, Natural Information, OpenStreetMap, Philosophy of Technology, PPGIS, Technological Information, The Device Paradigm, VGI

Albert Borgmann’s Philosophy of Technology, VGI & Citizen Science

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Some ideas take long time to mature into a form that you are finally happy to share them. This is an example for such thing. I got interested in the area of Philosophy of Technology during my PhD studies, and continue to explore it since. During this journey, I found a lot of inspiration and links […]

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Borgmann, citizen cyberscience, citizen science, Concepts, Cultural Information, Extreme Citizen Science, Focal Things and Practices, GIS, Natural Information, OpenStreetMap, Philosophy of Technology, PPGIS, Technological Information, The Device Paradigm, VGI

Assertions on crowdsourced geographic information & citizen science #3

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Following the two previous assertions, namely that: ‘you can be supported by a huge crowd for a very short time, or by few for a long time, but you can’t have a huge crowd all of the time (unless data collection is passive)’ (original post here) And ‘All information sources are heterogeneous, but some are more […]

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citizen science, Crowdsourcing, OpenStreetMap, Participation Inequality, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Assertions on crowdsourced geographic information & citizen science #2

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Following the last post, which focused on an assertion about crowdsourced geographic information and citizen science I continue with another observation. As was noted in the previous post, these can be treated as ‘laws’ as they seem to emerge as common patterns from multiple projects in different areas of activity – from citizen science to crowdsourced […]

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citizen science, Concepts, Crowdsourcing, OpenStreetMap, Spatial Data Quality, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

Assertions on crowdsourced geographic information & citizen science #1

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Looking across the range of crowdsourced geographic information activities, some regular patterns are emerging and it might be useful to start notice them as a way to think about what is possible or not possible to do in this area. Since I don’t like the concept of ‘laws’ – as in Tobler’s first law of […]

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citizen science, Concepts, Neogeography, OpenStreetMap, Usability, VGI, Volunteered Geographic Information

GIS chapter in ‘Introducing Human Geographies’

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There is something in the physical presence of book that is pleasurable. Receiving the copy of Introducing Human Geographies was special, as I have contributed a chapter about Geographic Information Systems to the ‘cartographies’ section. It might be a response to Ron Johnston critique of Human Geography textbooks or a decision by the editors to extend the […]

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Geographic information system, Geographical Information System, Geography, GIS, Human geography, introducing human geographies, OpenStreetMap, Papers
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