Volunteered geographic information and computational geography: New perspectives

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

Volumn 9789400745872, Issue , 2013, Pages 125-138

  Jiang, Bin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÄVLE   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

DATA TRACES; DATA-INTENSIVE COMPUTING; GEOGRAPHICS; GPS TRACES; HUMAN MOBILITY; SCALINGS; USER-GENERATED; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION; WEB 2.0 TECHNOLOGIES; WEB CONTENT;

EID: 84932625964     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4587-2_8     Document Type: Chapter

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