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11 What Are the Societal Implications of Citizen Mapping and Mapping Citizens?
11 What Are the Societal Implications of Citizen Mapping and Mapping Citizens?
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to a Wikipedia article, photograph, or video, location in space and time") and indirectly ("I don't or by adding one's own geographical data to an inter- want certain things associated with me because of my active, Web-based map, often by marking locations of current location in space and time, such as my presence certain features that are of importance, places where at an adult video store")
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. The map and graphs show demonstration outputs from the Personal Environmental Impact Report, an online service that interacts with a user's mobile phone to provide an environmental "scorecard" that tracks possible exposure to carbon emis sions, fast food, and particulates, as well as impact on sensitive sites throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
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information, is not always easy. There is growing concern that the proliferation of It follows that geographical context is relevant to technologies and the production of detailed, microany discussion of the nature and implications of VGI level spatial data are outpacing our ability to protect and its enabling technologies.
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ping initiatives and locational data collection is essential to the effort to understand the social implications Producers of VGI are themselves subjects of much of geographical practices. needed research (e.g., who volunteers and why, what are The responsibility of the geographical sciences to their geographical and social characteristics, what confront this issue becomes clear when one considers kind of locational information are they interested in that geographical research itself may infringe upon volunteering?
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in recent years to protect the rights of human subjects Discussions of neogeography and of what can be in research projects, and yet there is wide variability achieved today by citizen mappers rarely include the in their capacity to apply and disseminate confidential issue of the digital divide -- the sharp contrast between research (Lane, 2003)
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creating synthetic datasets show promise for limiting the risk of identification while providing broader ac cess and maintaining most of the scientific value of What and where are the most significant threats the data. However, these procedures have not been to human privacy as presented by emerging sufficiently studied to realistically determine their geographical technologies and how can we design usefulness" (NRC, 2007b: 2)
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order to further protect his or her privacy. The urgent need for work on privacy protections Over the next 10 years, geographical scientists for locational data becomes clear when one considers should continue research on responsible locational that, despite efforts to ensure the privacy of personal data release formats, while working to develop codes information (e.g., protection of social security, credit of practice for LBS use.
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UNDERSTANDING THE CHANGING PLANET summarY The recent and stunning emergence of citizens as both the sources and subjects of mapping has serious implications for individual privacy and many related societal issues, as millions worldwide continue to create a global patchwork of geographical information. The geographical sciences are central to promoting understanding of the nature and responsible use of these new forms of data acquisition and dissemination.
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