European Handbook of Crowdsourced Geographic Information

"This book focuses on the study of the remarkable new source of geographic information that has become available in the form of user-generated content accessible over the Internet through mobile and Web applications. The exploitation, integration and application of these sources, termed volunte...

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Other Authors: Huang, Haosheng (Editor), Purves, Ross (Editor), Antoniou, Vyron (Editor), Capineri, Cristina (Editor), Kettunen, Juhani (Editor), Ostermann, Frank (Editor), Haklay, Muki (Editor)
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Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2016
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