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Special Issue: “Crowdsourcing for Urban Geoinformatics”,
Deadline End of Nov 2017, Open Access by Taylor & Francis,
no publishing costs</b><br>
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normal; line-height: 1.4em; letter-spacing: 0px;">Crowdsourcing
for Urban Geoinformatics</h2>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;"><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;">Aims and Scope</span></strong><br
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
Modern mobile devices are pervasively equipped with embedded
sensors and cameras, and allow the positioning of media contents
within geographic space. In combination with the Web 2.0
paradigm, this has led to the crowdsourcing approach, which in
turn has become an important data acquisition technique. 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.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;">Crowdsourcing
thus opens up new possibilities for the disclosure of social
processes, and for tackling 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—and is
thus a crucial step towards the design of smarter and more
sustainable cities.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;">At
the same time, crowdsourcing brings new issues to the research
agendas: (a) huge amounts of data need to be processed, (b) more
thorough interdisciplinary collaboration is needed, and (c) we
are facing a general absence 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 caused by
potential quality issues, heterogeneous data characteristics and
a lack of user credibility, semantic ambiguities, and potential
positional inaccuracies, among others.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;"><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;"><span style="padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;">Topics</span></strong></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;">In
order to foster the overcoming of the outlined gaps, we call for
the submission of papers that address the analysis and
application of crowdsourced geographic data, with a specific
emphasis on urban research and issues.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;">We
welcome contributions on the<span> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">following topics:</strong></p>
<ul style="padding: 0px 1em; margin: 0px 1em; list-style-image:
url("img/bullet.png");">
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Reviews of the state-of-the-art in using crowdsourced
geographic information in urban research, planning, and
management.</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Applications and empirical case studies that
investigate urban issues by using crowdsourced geographic data
such as OSM, social media data, floating car data, and other
types.</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Data enrichment through crowdsourced geographic data.</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Extraction of 3D information from crowdsourced
geographic data (e.g., from Kinect data, OSM data).</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">The analysis of human behaviours for emergency
(disaster) management, tourism, or urban planning and
management.</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Quality assessment for crowdsourcing geographic data.</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Further topics are welcome if they fit the overall
theme.</li>
</ul>
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normal; line-height: 1.4em; letter-spacing: 0px;">Submission
Guidelines</h2>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;">Manuscripts
should be submitted online: <a
href="https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tgsi" target="_blank"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">here</a>.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;">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 GSIS.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;">All
article publishing charges (APC) will be covered by Wuhan
University, 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: <a
href="http://tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=tgsi20&page=instructions"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom:
1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">here</a>.</p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;"><span
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Important Dates:</span></p>
<p style="padding: 0px; margin: 0.7em 0px; line-height: 1.8em;"><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Submission deadline of
finalized manuscripts: November 20, 2017<br style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;">
Deadline of print-ready version: April 30, 2018<br
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">
Expected inclusion in an issue: June−August, 2018</strong></p>
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information</h2>
<ul style="padding: 0px 1em; margin: 0px 1em; list-style-image:
url("img/bullet.png");">
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Special Issue Guest Editor: Hongchao Fan, <em
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Wuhan University</em>(<a
href="mailto:hongchao.fan@whu.edu.cn" style="padding: 0px;
margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">hongchao.fan@whu.edu.cn</a>)</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Special Issue Guest Editor: João Porto de
Albuquerque, <em style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">University
of Warwick</em>(<a href="mailto:J.Porto@warwick.ac.uk"
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none;
color: rgb(119, 34, 34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153,
102, 51);">J.Porto@warwick.ac.uk</a>)</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Special Issue Guest Editor: Rene Westerholt, <em
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Heidelberg University</em><span> </span>(<a
href="mailto:westerholt@uni-heidelberg.de" style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34,
34); border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">westerholt@uni-heidelberg.de</a>)</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Special Issue Guest Editor: Alexander Zipf, <em
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">Heidelberg University</em><span> </span>(<a
href="mailto:zipf@uni-heidelberg.de" style="padding: 0px;
margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">zipf@uni-heidelberg.de</a>)</li>
<li style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 0.3em; line-height:
1.6em;">Special Issue Guest Editor: Bernd Resch, <em
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">University of Salzburg</em>(<a
href="mailto:bernd.resch@sbg.ac.at" style="padding: 0px;
margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);
border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(153, 102, 51);">bernd.resch@sbg.ac.at</a>)</li>
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initial;"><a href="http://explore.tandfonline.com/cfp/est/gsis"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);">Submit your
paper to Geo-spatial Information Science (GSIS), an open access
journal by Taylor & Francis with<span> </span><strong
style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;">no article publishing
charge</strong><span> </span>(APC)!</a><span style="padding:
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style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px; text-decoration: none; color:
rgb(119, 34, 34);">Special issue call for papers: Crowdsourcing
for Urban Geoinformatics</a></p>
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color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: arial, verdana, tahoma,
arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.16px; font-style: normal;
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255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color:
initial;">Just recently the<span> </span><a
href="http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tgsi20/20/3?nav=tocList"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);">GSIS Special
Issue on “VGI Analytics”</a><span> </span>has been published
including our article on <span class="hlFld-Title" style="padding:
0px; margin: 0px;"><a class="ref nowrap"
href="http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10095020.2017.1368193"
target="_blank" style="padding: 0px; margin: 0px;
text-decoration: none; color: rgb(119, 34, 34);">The
OpenStreetMap folksonomy and its evolution</a><span> </span>by
Mocnik, Zipf and Raifer.</span></p>
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