Maptivism can be defined as the use of maps to promote a cause. All maps tell a story and the use of geographic data and maps to accelerate attention on an issue has become more profound and globally available with the increase of crowdsourced geographic data and user friendly mapping […]
Volunteered Geographic Information
GIS Learning
GIS Talks from Redlands
There are some interesting talks available online from Redlands GIS Week. The event was held this past February at Esri’s headquarters in Redlands, California. The week was focused on discussing the current and future state of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). Over three days, a series of workshop and talks focusing […]
GIS Data
Volunteered Geography
Michael Goodchild, a professor of Geography at UC Santa Barbara, explores the historical and current trends of collaborative geographic data creation in what he terms “volunteered geography” in an article published in GeoJournal. In dissecting this phenomenon, Goodchild seeks to answer the following questions: “what drives people to do this, how accurate […]