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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"GeoWeb"”.
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Thinking the Geoweb: Political economies, `neo'geographies, and spatial media
… artifacts are referred to by geographers as `the geoweb.' The emergence of the geoweb is fundamentally transforming the ways in which society, space, and technology intersect and are co-articulated. Against this backdrop, this research takes the material and digital presences of geoweb phenomena …
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From Geo-Social to Geo-Local: The Flows and Biases of Volunteered Geographic Information
… of online networks and representations of the GeoWeb. It repudiates previous assumptions that online content provides liberation and collaboration among users without regard to geographic constraints and demonstrates the locally constrained nature social networks and the demographically …
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The Effects of Stream Crossings and Associated Road Approaches on Water Quality in the Virginia Piedmont
… culverts, and 4) re-enforced fords (with GeoWeb or Geotextile) to determine the influence of stream crossing type on water quality and to evaluate erosion associated with stream crossing approaches. We also evaluated each site at four different time intervals to determine if water quality …
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Participants' motivations to contribute geographic information in an online community
This dissertation examines volunteered geographic information (VGI), a Web 2.0 phenomenon in which users contribute geographic information online and collaboratively create maps. By examining the case of www.openstreetmap.org, I clarify why people contribute geographic information to an online …