Jinfo: Exploring citizen-derived geographic data

Exploring citizen-derived geographic data
Jinfo Article

26th October 2016

Abstract

Crowdsourced geographic information can be of immense help in areas such as disaster management and environmental monitoring. Sophie Alexander reports on how citizen-generated, crowdsourced data has played an important part in events such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake and how best practices are being developed in this area of big data.

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