Special Issue On: NeoGeography and WikiPlanning

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From: Jen Ziemke <j...@crisismappers.net>
Date: October 28, 2011 11:56:19 AM CDT
Subject: [CrisisMappers] CFP - Special Issue On: NeoGeography and WikiPlanning

Call for Papers - Special Issue "NeoGeography and WikiPlanning"

Special Issue On: NeoGeography and WikiPlanning
Guest Editors:

Beniamino Murgante, University of Basilicata, Italy
Giuseppe Borruso, University of Trieste, Italy
Maurizio Gibin, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

Introduction and Objectives of The Special Issue:

The advent of Web 2.0 made available techonologies and services such as blogs, social networking, Wikis and RSS/XML feeds that allowed many users to the create their own contentand share it through simple and freely available tools. The shift to a user-generated content paradigm on the web fostered changes in sharing and analyzing geographic information. The term "neogeography" rose as a way to describe people activities when using and creating their own maps, geo-tagging pictures, movies, websites, etc. It could be defined as a new bottom - up approach to geography prompted by users, therefore introducing changes in the roles of 'traditional' geographers and 'consumers' of geographical contents themselves.

During the past decades, the main issue in GIS implementation has been the availability of sound spatial information. Nowadays, the wide diffusion of electronic devices providing geo-referenced information have resulted in the production of extensive spatial information datasets. This trend has led to "GIS wikification", where mass collaboration plays a key role in main components of spatial information frameworks (hardware, software, data, and people). Goodchild, (2007) introduced "Volunteered Geographic Information" (VGI), as the harnessing of tools to create, assemble, anddisseminate geographic information provided by individuals voluntarily creating their own contents by marking the locations of occurred events or by labeling certain existing features. not already been shown on map. The volunteered approach has been also adopted by important organizations. Whilst technologies (e.g. GPS, remote sensing, etc.) can be useful in producing new spatial data, volunt eered activities are the only way to update and describe such data. If, on one hand, spatial data have been produced in various ways, on the other hand remote sensing, sensor networks andother electronic devices generate a great flow of relevant spatial information concerning several aspects of human activities or of environmental phenomena monitoring. This "Information-Explosion Era" is characterised by a large amount of information produced both by human activities and by automated systems; the capturing and the manipulation of this information leads to" urban computing" and represents a sort of bridge between computers and the real world, accounting for the social dimension of human environments. This technological evolution produced a new Paradigm of Urban Development, called "u-City". Such phenomena offer new challenges to scholars (geographers, engineers, planners, economists, sociologists, etc.) as well as to spatial planners in addressing spatial issues and a wealth of brand-new, updated data, generally created by people who are interested in geographically related phenomena. As attention is to-date dedicated to visualization and content creation, little has still been done from the spatial analytical point of view and in involving users - as citizens - in participatory geographical activities.

Recommended Topics:
  • Neogeography
  • Volunteered geographic information
  • Crowdsourcing
  • Collaborative mapping
  • WikiCities
  • Wikinomics
  • GeoDesign
  • Planning 2.0
  • Participation 2.0
  • Urban social networks
  • Urban sensing
  • e-democracy
  • eParticipation
  • Participatory GIS
  • Web 2.0; Web 3.0
  • Technologies for eParticipation
  • Second life and participatory games
  • SDI and planning
  • Ontologies for urban planning
  • Urban computing
  • Ubiquitous-city

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are refereed through a peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Future Internet is an international peer-reviewed Open Access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. For the first couple of issues the Article Processing Charge (APC) will be waived for well-prepared manuscripts. English correction and/or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those articles accepted for publication that require extensive additional formatting and/or English corrections.

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 15 November 2011

Beniamino Murgante
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Beniamino Murgante, PhD
L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T. - Facoltà di Ingegneria
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