Tag: crowdsourcing gis
Geospatial Redux: Free GIS eBook, Crowdsourcing Maps with USAID, Listen to Your Maps, 2012 National Geographic Bee Winner
Bing Picks Nokia Bing Maps has selected Nokia Maps as its provider for its geocoding and traffic information. Bing Maps will now make traffic information available for 24 countries: Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, [...]
OpenStreetMap: Grassroots Mapping
OpenStreetMap was founded with the goal of creating and providing free geographic data to whoever wants it. With an army of 5,000 volunteers who hit the streets around the world with GPS units to capture street segments or who participate in applying attribute information to collected data, the project has growing geographic data in thirty-nine [...]
Nokia’s Crowdsourcing GIS Effort
Nokia recently launched Map Creator (in beta), tossing its hat into the crowdsourcing GIS ring. While the announcement proclaims, “We’ve just launched Nokia Map Creator, a fun tool on maps.nokia.com that literally lets YOU map out your local neighbourhood! “, the next paragraph explains volunteer input is requested for twelve countries: Our initial focus with Map Creator is to get [...]
GeoCommons 2.0 Launches
GeoIQ (formerly FortiusOne) has announced the launch of GeoCommons 2.0. GeoCommons is a crowdsourced repository for data and maps created by users. Since its launch in 2008, the site has over 28,000 users and 508,000 freely available data layers. That activity has resulted in the sharing of over 2.5 million data sets and been used to create [...]
Not your father’s approach to geodata creation and sharing
What do the pundits say about crowd-sourcing GIS data and its future? Peter Batty assembled a group of some of the loudest voices in that debate for a panel at GITA’s recent conference. The video’s an hour and 45 minutes long but worth the watch if you’re interesting in the issue of collective and open [...]