The 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 to their scope and meaning, thereby enhancing the clarity with which discourse around these phenomena may occur, both in the research and popular context.
Reference:
Cooper, A.K., Coetzee, S. and Kourie, D.G. 2018. Volunteered geographical information, crowdsourcing, citizen science and neogeography are not the same. International Cartographic Conference 2017, 3-7 July 2017, Washington, DC, USA. Published in Proceedings of the International Cartographic Association, volume 1
Cooper, A. K., Coetzee, S., & Kourie, D. (2018). Volunteered geographical information, crowdsourcing, citizen science and neogeography are not the same. Copernicus Publications. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10484
Cooper, Antony K, S Coetzee, and DG Kourie. "Volunteered geographical information, crowdsourcing, citizen science and neogeography are not the same." (2018): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10484
Cooper AK, Coetzee S, Kourie D, Volunteered geographical information, crowdsourcing, citizen science and neogeography are not the same; Copernicus Publications; 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/10484 .