Social and political dimensions of the OpenStreetMap project: Towards a critical geographical research agenda

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue 9783319142791, 2015, Pages 143-166

  Glasze, Georg ^a   Perkins, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Critical cartography; Geoweb and society; GIS and society; OpenStreetMap; Social and cultural geography; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; CROWDSOURCING; MAPPING; MAPS;

GEOWEB AND SOCIETY; GIS AND SOCIETY; OPENSTREETMAP; SOCIAL AND CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 85019529422     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14280-7_8     Document Type: Article

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