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Mapping for the Masses

Accessing Web 2.0 Through Crowdsourcing

Andrew Hudson-Smith

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, asmithWgeog.ucl.ac.uk

Michael Batty

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, m.batty{at}ucl.ac.uk

Andrew Crooks

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, andrew.crooks{at}ucl.ac.uk

Richard Milton

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, richard.milton{at}ucl.ac.uk

The authors describe how we are harnessing the power of web 2.0 technologies to create new approaches to collecting, mapping, and sharing geocoded data. The authors begin with GMapCreator that lets users fashion new maps using Google Maps as a base. The authors then describe MapTube that enables users to archive maps and demonstrate how it can be used in a variety of contexts to share map information, to put existing maps into a form that can be shared, and to create new maps from the bottom-up using a combination of crowdcasting, crowdsourcing, and traditional broadcasting. The authors conclude by arguing that such tools are helping to define a neogeography that is essentially ‘‘mapping for the masses,’’ while noting that there are many issues of quality, accuracy, copyright, and trust that will influence the impact of these tools on map-based communication.

Key Words: network economies • web-based services • map mashups • crowdsourcing • crowd-casting • online GIS

This version was published on November 1, 2009

Social Science Computer Review, Vol. 27, No. 4, 524-538 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0894439309332299
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