4. VGI research challenges
• What motivates a volunteer?
• What social factors predict participation?
• If empowered, what whould she choose to map?
• …
• Limits, quality, mechanisms, protocol
Twenty years of progress: GISscience in 2010, M.F. Goodchild,
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2010
26. The crowd is alway right?
• Memoirs of Extrodinary Popular Delusions and
the Madness of Crowds
By Charles Mackey (Tulipomania)
• Would the Beatles have made it at Xfactor?