More than 10 years have passed since the coining of the term volunteered geographic
information (VGI) in 2007. This article presents the results of a review of the literature …

During the last ten years, a large body of research extracting and analysing geographic data
from social media has developed. We analyse 690 papers across 20 social media platforms …

The emergence of big data brings new opportunities for us to understand our socioeconomic
environments. We use the term social sensing for such individual-level big geospatial data …

In recent years, social media emerged as a potential resource to improve the management
of crisis situations such as disasters triggered by natural hazards. Although there is a …

Many states in the United States allow a “belief exemption” for measles, mumps, and rubella
(MMR) vaccines. People's opinion on whether or not to take the vaccine can have direct …

Urban form and function have been studied extensively in urban planning and geographical
information science. However, gaining a greater understanding of how they merge to define …

With the development of social media (eg Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare, Sina Weibo, etc.), a
large number of people are now using them and post microblogs, messages and multi …

This book has emerged through years of discussions, comments and questions we have
received about building agentbased models and integrating geographical information …

The application of crowdsourced social media data in flood mapping and other disaster
management initiatives is a burgeoning field of research, but not one that is without …

The study of land use change in urban and regional systems has been dramatically
transformed in the last four decades by the emergence and application of cellular automata …