Volunteered geographic information production as a spatial process

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1191-1212

  Hardy, Darren ^a   Frew, James ^a   Goodchild, Michael F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

distance decay; geotagging; user generated content; volunteered geographic information; Wikipedia

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; DATABASE; GIS; SPATIAL DATA;

EID: 84864681952     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2011.629618     Document Type: Article

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