Volunteered geographic information, the exaflood, and the growing digital divide

Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in Theory and Practice

Volumn 9789400745872, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-12

  Sui, Daniel ^a   Goodchild, Michael ^b   Elwood, Sarah ^c  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION FORMS; DATA INFORMATIONS; DIGITAL DATAS; DIGITAL DIVIDE; GEOGRAPHIC DATA; GEOGRAPHICS; KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION; SPACE COMPRESSION; TIME-SPACE; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

EID: 84932621217     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2_1     Document Type: Chapter

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