Overview
- Provides a framework for evaluating geospatial software for participatory mapping
- Identifies gaps in software for participatory mapping to inform application development
- Covers ten different mapping applications
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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This volume provides a framework for evaluating geospatial software for participatory mapping. The evaluation is based on ten key indicators: ethics, cost, technical level, inclusiveness, data accuracy, data privacy, analytical capacity, visualization capacity, openness, and accessibility (i.e., mobile friendly or offline capabilities). Each application is evaluated by a user and cross analyzed with specific case studies of the software’s real-world application. This framework does not discriminate against assessing volunteered geographic information (VGI) applications, as a form of participatory mapping, in circumstances that its application is spearheaded by underrepresented groups with the intent to empower and spark political or behavioral change within formal and informal institutions. Each chapter follows a strict template to ensure that the information within the volume can be updated periodically to match the ever-changing technological environment. The book covers ten different mapping applications with the goal of creating a comparative evaluation framework that can be easily interpreted by convening institutions and novice users. This will also help identify gaps in software for participatory mapping which will help to inform application development in the future and updates to current geospatial software.
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Book Title: Evaluating Participatory Mapping Software
Editors: Charla M. Burnett
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-19594-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19593-8Published: 22 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-19596-9Published: 23 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-19594-5Published: 21 April 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 265
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 64 illustrations in colour
Topics: Computer Applications, Geography, general, Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems, Computer Applications