Call for papers: geospatial analysis of VGI

[binjiang]

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Call for Papers: A special issue on geospatial analysis of volunteered
geographic information with Computers, Environment and Urban Systems

Volunteered geographic information (VGI), created by volunteers
through crowdsourcing, represents a new phenomenon arising from Web
2.0 technologies. It constitutes one of the most important types of
user-generated content, and is quickly becoming a new source of
asserted geographic information, complementing the traditional
authoritative geographic information collected by government agencies
or private organizations. In the context of this call, we define VGI
broadly as any georeferenced information that is freely distributable
without copyright constraints for sharing among those interested. The
increasing availability of VGI of various kinds such as OpenStreetMap,
and digital traces of GPS, cell phones, Flickr photos, and tweets has
dramatically transformed traditional geography to data-driven
computational geography. The ways of doing geography are changing!
Along with the emerging computational social science, we believe that
the abundance of VGI provides an unprecedented opportunity for
conducting innovative studies about the environment, cities, and human
activities in both physical and virtual spaces. We call for original
papers that focus on geospatial analysis of VGI for a better
understanding of geographic forms and processes, or of urban structure
and dynamics in particular, as well as of human activities
individually or collectively with various platforms of social media.
We are particularly interested in papers that use VGI at a large scale
to uncover hidden and surprising patterns. We will archive your data,
source codes, and other supplemental materials, along with the
published papers.

Submission
Original papers with a length of 6000-7000 words are welcome. To
submit your paper, please follow the journal's Guide for Authors, and
clickhttp://ees.elsevier.com/ceus/. We encourage authors to consider
the option of supplementary data including raw data, derived data and
source codes; we particularly encourage authors to pack your
supplementary data in such a manner that interested readers can easily
replicate your results. Authors must select "Special Issue" while they
reach the "Article Type" step in the submission process, and identify
the "geospatial analysis of VGI" special issue in their cover letter.
First-time users must register themselves as Author.

Important dates:
Paper submission due: 30 December 2012
Acceptance notification: 30 May 2013
Publication: 30 August 2013

Editors for the special issue:
Bin Jiang
Department of Technology and Built Environment, Division of Geomatics
University of Gävle, Sweden
Email: bin....@hig.se

Jean-Claude Thill
Department of Geography and Earth Sciences
University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
Email: Jean-Cla...@uncc.edu