Citizen Empowered Mapping

Jamal Jokar Arsanjani received his doctoral degree in Geographic Information Science (GISc) from the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria. He is currently an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Germany. His interdisciplinary research interests are in volunteered geographic information and crowdsourcing, geocomputation and spatial planning, remote sensing of the environment, and disaster management. He has published articles in leading international journals of his discipline, including International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation, International Journal of Digital Earth, Transactions in GIS, Cities and single-authored a book on Dynamic Land Use/Cover Change Simulation: Geosimulation and Agent-based Modelling with Springer.Michael Leitner received a master degree at the Department of Geography and Regional Research, University of Vienna, Austria anda second master and a doctoral degree in GISc at the Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, US. He is currently a Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University, US and a faculty member in the Doctoral College “GIScience” at the University of Salzburg, Austria. He has previously received a Fulbright Scholarship and is the recipient of the 2007 Meredith F. Burrill Award from the Association of American Geographers. His research interests are in GISc and its application to spatial crime analysis, medical geography, and geospatial privacy. He has published two co-authored books, one single-edited book and 40+ refereed articles and book chapters. He is the current editor of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS).

• Foreword.- introduction.- Part I: Data Acquisition and Modeling.- Chapter 1. Level of Details Harmonization Operations in OpenStreetMap Based Large Scale Maps.- Chapter 2. Cartographic Representation of Soundscape: Proposals and Assessment.- Chapter 3. Evaluating the Current State of Geospatial Software as a Service Platforms: A Comparison Study.- Chapter 4. Big geo-data handling based on parallel and distributed system’s strategies.- Chapter 5. Productive Networks and Indirect Locations.- Part II: Data Quality and Reliability.-  Chapter 6.Assessment of Volunteered Geographic Information Data Quality in The National Map Corps Project of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).- Chapter 7. On Reliability of Routes Computed Based on Crowdsourced Points of Interest.- Chapter 8. A Comparison of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) Collected in Rural Areas to VGI Collected in Urban and Suburban Areas of the United States.- Part III: Environmental Monitoring and Perception.- Chapter 9. Identifying Frostquakes in Central Canada and Neighbouring Regions in the United States with Social Media.- Chapter 10. Structuring Volunteered Geographic Information Collection to Improve Information Processing Efficiency in Environmental Management.- Chapter 11.  Volunteered Geographic Information for Building Territorial Governance in Mexico City: The Case of The Roma Neighborhood .- Chapter 12. Crowdsourcing of environmental health quality perceptions: A pilot study of Kroměříž, Czech Republic.