Abstract
With the rise of Web 2.0 and social computing, we have been witnessing a revolution in the way spatial information is being accessed and utilized. However, the paradigm that governs the generation of spatial information products such as GIS applications has not changed much. The rise of web-based mass collaboration offers an opportunity to develop a new paradigm for creating and sharing spatial information products. To illustrate this, we developed wikiGIS, a location-based mass collaboration system that is designed to generate spatial knowledge products through self-organization, decentralization, and peer-to-peer mass collaboration. Open source software tools provide a natural fit for implementing such location - based mass collaboration systems. In this paper we review the design and development of wikiGIS, analyse the suitability of existing open source tools, and identify key challenges for tools that support location-based mass collaboration systems.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography |
| Editors | Erwan Bocher, Markus Neteler |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH |
| Pages | 175-189 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9783642105951 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9783319005140, 9783319009926, 9783319036434, 9783319081793, 9783319337821, 9783319615141, 9783319639451, 9783319714691, 9783540342373, 9783540685678, 9783540713173, 9783540777991, 9783540873921, 9783540882435, 9783642032936, 9783642034411, 9783642047909, 9783642105944, 9783642105944, 9783642122712, 9783642155369, 9783642224409, 9783642241970, 9783642297694, 9783642318320, 9783642327131, 9783642332173, 9783642343582, 9783642363788, 9783642375323 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2012 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 1st International Open Source Geospatial Research Symposium, OGRS 2009 - Nantes, France Duration: 8 Jul 2009 → 10 Jul 2009 |
Publication series
| Name | Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography |
|---|---|
| Volume | 0 |
| ISSN (Print) | 1863-2246 |
| ISSN (Electronic) | 1863-2351 |
Conference
| Conference | 1st International Open Source Geospatial Research Symposium, OGRS 2009 |
|---|---|
| Country/Territory | France |
| City | Nantes |
| Period | 8/07/09 → 10/07/09 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Civil and Structural Engineering
- Geography, Planning and Development
- Earth-Surface Processes
- Computers in Earth Sciences