Presentation at University of Amsterdam on VGI and disaster management

2. Voluntary Geographic Information
and
its value for disaster management
U of Amsterdam, Sarphati
Guest Lecture
May 14th, 2012

3. Manage
Capture Analyse
In context
Integrate Publish

4. VGI research challenges
• What motivates a volunteer?
• What social factors predict participation?
• If empowered, what whould she choose to map?
• …
• Limits, quality, mechanisms, protocol
Twenty years of progress: GISscience in 2010, M.F. Goodchild,
Journal of Spatial Information Science, 2010

5. The poreus firm
New
market

7. I AM HERE
(O N A V O L U N T A R Y B A S I S)
VGI level 1

10. I AM HERE
D O I N G W H A T?
VGI level 2

14. I AM HERE
D O I N G W H A T?
SO WHAT?
VGI level 3

19. THE MORE
CONTEXT
IN LOCATION
THE HIGHER THE VALUE

20. MOTIVES?
EASY/FUN
REPUTATION
B E A N (ACTIVE) C I T I Z E N
....

21. Voluntary Geographic Information
and
its value for disaster management
ITC / TU Twente, Enschede
Guest Lecture
May 14th, 2012

22. Value
• What is the value of water?
• At what level?
• Realtime or historic?
• How good is the source?

24. VGI means more people,
more data,
big data
for small maps
But is the data always right?

25. The crowd is always right?
(Tulipomania)

26. The crowd is alway right?
• Memoirs of Extrodinary Popular Delusions and
the Madness of Crowds
By Charles Mackey (Tulipomania)
• Would the Beatles have made it at Xfactor?

27. The chasm uitdrukken!

28. House on Fire
Me?
Definitely Positive No Way

29. House on Fire
Police officer
Off Duty
Definitely Positive No Way

30. We rationalise in hindsight (Taleb)

31. How to leverage crowdsourcing?
Let more data in
and understand how to filter
and build robust systems

32. Manage
Capture Analyse
Build with the crowd
Integrate Publish

33. Manage
Preparedness Mitigation
Recovery Response

37. Manage
Capture Analyse
Publish to the crowd
Integrate Publish

38. OpenStreetMap editor

44. The more data
available, the more
important the filter is
“The crowd” is simply
“wrong”
Not sure if our brain
allows us to do
anything voluntary