Crowdsourcing functions of the living city from Twitter and Foursquare data

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 393-404

  Zhou, Xiaolu ^a   Zhang, Liang ^b  

^a GEORGIA SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Northeastern University   (United States)

Author keywords

city characteristics; geographic information systems; Social media data; urban planning

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); URBAN PLANNING;

ACTIVITY INTENSITIES; CITY CHARACTERISTICS; EXTRACT INFORMATIONS; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; SOCIAL MEDIA DATUM; SPATIOTEMPORAL ACTIVITY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPORTATION NEEDS;

URBAN TRANSPORTATION;

DATA PROCESSING; GIS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; REAL TIME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE; URBAN PLANNING;

EID: 84954240683     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2015.1128852     Document Type: Article

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