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<p>Dear colleagues,</p>
<p>we are happy to invite you to submit your
crowdsourcing-related research to a special issue on "Urban
Geoinformatics" (see the PDF in the attachment). It would
further be most kind, if you could disseminate this call to
interested scholars in your personal networks.<br>
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Thank you very much, looking foward to your submissions, and
nice greetings from Heidelberg,<br>
René Westerholt<br>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri,BoldItalic'; color: rgb(12.200000%,
28.600000%, 49.000000%)">Crowdsourcing for Urban
Geoinformatics
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<p><span style="font-size: 16.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'; color: rgb(31.000000%, 50.600000%,
74.100000%)">Background
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">Modern mobile devices are pervasively
equipped with embedded sensors and
cameras, and allow the positioning of media contents
in geographic space. In
combination with Web 2.0 technologies, this has led
to the crowdsourcing
approach, which in turn has become an important data
acquisition paradigm.
It is now possible to collect large amounts of
geospatial data in a timely
fashion and at low costs, especially in urban areas
that feature vast numbers
of contributors. Crowdsourcing thus opens up new
possibilities for the
disclosure of social processes, and for the coping
of a range of societal and
environmental issues related to urban conurbations.
For instance,
crowdsourcing allows the integration of
user-generated information into
urban planning and management workflows</span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">—</span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">and is thus a
crucial step
towards the design of smarter and more sustainable
cities. However, at the
same time, crowdsourcing brings up new issues to the
research agendas: a)
huge amounts of data need to be processed, b) more
thorough
interdisciplinary collaboration is needed, and c) a
general lack of theorizing on
crowdsourced geodata and underlying related
processes. Further,
researchers as well as practitioners are often
sceptical about the suitability of
crowdsourced data. This is mostly being caused by
potential quality issues,
heterogeneous data characteristics, lacks of user
credibility, semantic
ambiguities, and potential positional inaccuracies,
among others.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'; color: rgb(31.000000%, 50.600000%,
74.100000%)">Call for Papers
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">In order to address the outlined gaps, we
call for the submission of papers on
the analysis and application of crowdsourced
geographic data, with a specific
emphasis on urban research and issues. We welcome
contributions on the
following topics:
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Symbol'">- </span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">Reviews </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">of the state</span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">-</span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">of</span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">-</span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">the</span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">-</span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">art in using
crowdsourced geographic
information in urban research, planning, and
management.
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Symbol'">- </span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">Applications
and </span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">empirical case studies
that investigate urban issues
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri'">by using crowdsourced
geographic data (e.g., OSM, social media data) </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Symbol'"><br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Symbol'">- </span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">Supplementation
of involuntary/authoritative urban datasets </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">with</span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'"> crowdsourced
geographic data.</span><br>
</p>
<span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'"></span>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Symbol'">- </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">Extraction of </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri,Bold'">3D information from crowdsourced
geographic data</span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'"> (e.g., from
Kinect data, OSM data).</span><br>
</p>
<span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'"></span>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Symbol'">- </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">The </span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri,Bold'">analysis
of human behaviours </span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'">for emergency
(disaster)</span><span style="font-size:
11.000000pt; font-family: 'Calibri'"> management,
tourism, or urban planning and management.
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Symbol'"> </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri,Bold'">Quality assessment </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">for crowdsourcing geographic data.</span><br>
</p>
<span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'"></span>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">
</span><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Symbol'">- </span><span
style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">(Further topics are welcome if they fit
the overall theme.) <br>
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'"><br>
</span></p>
<p><font size="5"><b><span lang="en">Submission
Guidelines</span></b></font> </p>
<div style="margin:0 0 6pt 0"><font color="#454C54"
face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="en">Manuscripts
should be submitted online: </span></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tgsi"
target="_blank"><font face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span
lang="en">here</span></font></a><font
color="#454C54" face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span
lang="en">.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0 0 6pt 0"><font color="#454C54"
face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="en">Submitted
articles should not have been published
previously, or be under consideration for
publication elsewhere (except conference
proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed
through a peer-review process. All accepted
manuscripts will be published open access in </span></font><font
color="#454C54" face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span
lang="en"><i>GSIS</i></span></font><font
color="#454C54" face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span
lang="en">.</span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0 0 6pt 0"><font color="#454C54"
face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span lang="en"><b>All
article publishing charges (APC) will be covered
by Wuhan University, </b></span></font><font
color="#454C54" face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span
lang="en">so you can enjoy the benefits of
publishing open access at no cost. Authors are
recommended to prepare their manuscript by
following the full instructions for authors: </span></font><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tgsi20&page=instructions"
target="_blank"><font face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span
lang="en">here</span></font></a><font
color="#454C54" face="Helvetica,sans-serif"><span
lang="en">.</span></font></div>
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<p><span style="font-size: 16.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'; color: rgb(12.200000%, 28.600000%,
49.000000%)">Deadline for Submission:
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt; font-family:
'Calibri'">30 October 2017
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rgb(12.200000%, 28.600000%, 49.000000%)">Guest
Editors:
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri,Italic'">Hongchao Fan,<br>
Wuhan University,
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:hongchao.fan@whu.edu.cn">hongchao.fan@whu.edu.cn</a>)
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri,Italic'">João Porto
de Albuquerque,
University of Warwick,
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:J.Porto@warwick.ac.uk">J.Porto@warwick.ac.uk</a>)
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<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri,Italic'">René
Westerholt,<br>
Heidelberg University,
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:westerholt@uni-heidelberg.de">westerholt@uni-heidelberg.de</a>)
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri,Italic'">Alexander
Zipf,
Heidelberg University,
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:zipf@uni-heidelberg.de">zipf@uni-heidelberg.de</a>)
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 11.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri,Italic'">Bernd Resch,<br>
University of Salzburg,
(<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:bernd.resch@sbg.ac.at">bernd.resch@sbg.ac.at</a>)
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 16.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri'; color:
rgb(12.200000%, 28.600000%, 49.000000%)">Deadline
for Submission:
</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12.000000pt;
font-family: 'Calibri'">30 October 2017
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<p style="color:gray"> René Westerholt <small
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