Author:Cooper, Antony K; Coetzee, S; Kourie, DGDate:Apr 2012User-generated content (UGC) in general, and volunteered geographical information (VGI) in particular, are becoming more important as sources for official data bases, such as those used in national spatial data infrastructures (SDIs). Discovering ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony KDate:Jul 2016This thesis presents an analysis of the nature of volunteered geographical information (VGI) and on its applicability for use in a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to supplement official and commercial sources, particularly given the ease ...Read morecb
Author:Modupe, A; Celik, T; Marivate, Vukosi N; Diale, MelvinDate:Mar 2017The growing use of informal social text messages on Twitter is one of the known sources of big data. These type of messages are noisy and frequently rife with acronyms, slangs, grammatical errors and non-standard words causing grief for natural ...Read more
Author:Cooper, Antony K; Coetzee, S; Kourie, DGDate:2018The terms user-generated content, volunteered geographical information, crowdsourcing, citizen science and neogeography are elucidated. The purpose is to expose the range of meanings associated with these terms, and to promote consensus as ...Read more