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January 2, 2015Journal of Map & Geography Libraries

The Benefits and Risks of Volunteered Geographic Information

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Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a term coined by Michael Goodchild in 2007 when he referred to the popular practice of observing, collecting, and producing geographic information by tho...

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Amy J. Blatt (2015) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6ab33368e229ba44ba385173 https://doi.org/10.1080/15420353.2015.1009609

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