Voluntary Geographic Information (VGI), state of the art in Latin America
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The aim of this paper is to review the state of the art of Volunteered Geographical Information in Latin America. This is an emerging area of Neogeography, it studies the way citizens obtain and voluntarily provide information on specific problems of their interests to other social agents, using technologies and the web. The most relevant aspect of VGI is the integration of information technologies of communi- cation with GPS, allowing the creation of cartographies based on particular interests of the users. This literature review presents the Ney areas of interests for Latin- American scientist regarding the field of VGI. Topics such as the epistemological perspective of VGI and the Neogeography; spatial data infrastructure; data quality and validation; participative cartography and disaster risN reduction are discussed in this paper.
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