Crowdsourcing techniques for augmenting traditional accessibility maps with transitory obstacle information

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 210-219

  Rice, Matthew T ^a   Jacobson, R Daniel ^b   Caldwell, Douglas R ^c   McDermott, Scott D ^a   Paez, Fabiana I ^a   Aburizaiza, Ahmad O ^a   Curtin, Kevin M ^a   Stefanidis, Anthony ^a   Qin, Han ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^c US Army Engineer Research and Development Center   (United States)

Author keywords

accessibility; blindness; crowdsourcing

Indexed keywords

ACCESSIBILITY; BLINDNESS; BUILT ENVIRONMENT; CONTEMPORARY TECHNIQUES; CROWDSOURCING; GEO-SPATIAL DATA; MAPPING SYSTEMS; RESEARCH PAPERS;

MAPS;

MAPPING;

CARTOGRAPHY; DATA ACQUISITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MAPPING;

EID: 84880198469     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2013.799737     Document Type: Conference Paper

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