Joint Workshop FIG Commission 3 & Commission 7 and Annual Meeting

Workshop Objectives

 

Citizens, through crowdsourcing / Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), are increasingly volunteering their knowledge, personal

time and energy using the Internet and on-line tools to get work done, to obtain input and to stimulate action. Current applications

include counting birds, checking water quality and creating new base mapping for developing countries – OpenStreetMap is the best

example. Crowdsourcing has only recently been directly applied to the capture and management of land rights within the land administration

sector. Is it feasible and can it help to rapidly shrink the security of tenure chasm? This workshop will explore how we can engage

citizens through crowdsourcing within a new citizen collaborative model for land administration that would be much more inclusive for

the disadvantaged and vulnerable, increase access to land markets and help support poverty reduction. The workshop will also investigate

new exploitation, development and use methodologies of VGI derived information to various geographic and social scientific disciplines

that make use of mapping, GIS, SIM and SDI systems and procedures. The aspiration is that these will give rise to the examination

and legalisation of the legitimacy of big geodata and related processes and management procedures as a reliable spatial, environmental

and sustainable infrastructure on local, as well as on global, scales.

 

Topics

 

While the workshop focus is on effective utilization of VGI within the framework of SDI and SIM, a larger number of topics of interest related to SDI, SIM, VGI and crowdsourcing will be discussed. Topics include but are not limited to:

 

• National Mapping Agencies (NMAs): practices with VGI and managing of spatial information; theory, applications and best practice studies

• Land management tools and innovative spatial information solutions addressing global and national challenges

• Utilization of VGI and crowdsourcing with SDI and SIM on collection, dissemination, analysis, maintenance, and visualization

• Applications of VGI in managing the built environment, legalization monitoring, property registration, planning reforms

• Early warning systems, climate change, natural disasters and environmental protection: adapting working paradigms; case studies and possibilities

• Tackling VGI and PM credibility issues: interoperability, uncertainty, quality, authenticity, validity

• PM and Citizens Science – case studies and processes 

 

Please view Call for Papers and Important Dates sections for details concerning paper submission.