Building location-based mass collaboration systems: Challenges and opportunities

Arie Croitoru; Ofer Arazy

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-10595-1_11

Building location-based mass collaboration systems: Challenges and opportunities

Arie Croitoru, Ofer Arazy

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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	American 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, 9783642122712, 9783642155369, 9783642224409, 9783642241970, 9783642297694, 9783642318320, 9783642327131, 9783642332173, 9783642343582, 9783642363788, 9783642375323
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10595-1_11
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

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Name	Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
Volume	0

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Conference	1st International Open Source Geospatial Research Symposium, OGRS 2009
Country/Territory	France
City	Nantes
Period	8/07/09 → 10/07/09

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

Civil and Structural Engineering
Geography, Planning and Development
Earth-Surface Processes
Computers in Earth Sciences

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Croitoru, A., & Arazy, O. (2012). Building location-based mass collaboration systems: Challenges and opportunities. In E. Bocher, & M. Neteler (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (pp. 175-189). (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography; Vol. 0). Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10595-1_11

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Croitoru, A & Arazy, O 2012, Building location-based mass collaboration systems: Challenges and opportunities. in E Bocher & M Neteler (eds), Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, vol. 0, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, pp. 175-189, 1st International Open Source Geospatial Research Symposium, OGRS 2009, Nantes, France, 8/07/09. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-10595-1_11

Building location-based mass collaboration systems: Challenges and opportunities. / Croitoru, Arie; Arazy, Ofer.
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. ed. / Erwan Bocher; Markus Neteler. Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, 2012. p. 175-189 (Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography; Vol. 0).

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