Towns conquer: a gamified application to collect geographical names (vernacular names/toponyms)

The traditional model for geospatial crowd sourcing asks the public to use their free time collecting geospatial data for no obvious reward. This model has shown to work very well on projects such as Open Street Map, but comes with some clear disadvantages such as reliance on small communities of ‘N...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Castellote, Jesus, Huerta, Joaquin, Pescador, Javier, Brown, Michael
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2013
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2131/
http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/2131/1/Castellote_Et_Al_2013_AGILE_Towns_Conquer.pdf