Geo-wiki.org By IIASA, FHWN, FELIS Christian Schill University of Freiburg Dep. Remote Sensing and Landscape Information systems

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Geo-wiki.org Crowdsourcing platform to collect land cover validations based on local citizens’ experience and/or Google Earth imagry

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Geo-wiki.org example for VGI and crowdsourcingexample for VGI and crowdsourcing Candidate pilot platform for WP11 “land change” ?Candidate pilot platform for WP11 “land change” ? Sensors:Sensors: – Currently people only – soon: their smartphone camera with GPS and compass

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Several flavours of geowiki already exist, e.g. landspotting.org landspotting.org agriculture.geo-wiki.org (coll. with JRC) agriculture.geo-wiki.org (coll. with JRC) biomass.geo-wiki.org biomass.geo-wiki.org humanimpact.geo-wiki.org humanimpact.geo-wiki.org Geowiki mobile Geowiki mobile And more.. And more.. Geowiki diversifies

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Standing Geo-wiki has drawn a lot of attention in the scientific community (e.g. GEO showcase in Beijing)drawn a lot of attention in the scientific community (e.g. GEO showcase in Beijing) Is accepted and used as e.g. a scientific validation toolIs accepted and used as e.g. a scientific validation tool Has a (expert and non-expert) community user base of ~ 500 users in different geo-wiki branchesHas a (expert and non-expert) community user base of ~ 500 users in different geo-wiki branches

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Engage the Community No broad advertisement initiative done „funnier“ to validate galaxies rather than LC?  serious games More social networking (blogs etc) necessary Aims at Global initiative, but atm restricted to English and Latin alphabet Obviously based on internet technology, but lack of this technology still in many parts of the world* (cf. Cashew initiative by SAP) * See Goodchild 2007

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Geowiki architecture

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Web 2.0 Broker Web 2.0 client Web 2.0 Broker Twitter Flicker YouTube EuroGEOSS Discovery Broker Web 2.0 SDI Broker and following slide by EuroGEOSS project Dr. Laura Diaz Geospatial technologies research group Universitat Jaume I 12071, Castellon, Spain  Integrate Volunteered Geographic Information – though collected for different purpose – into e.g. geo- wiki

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Web 2.0 Broker Architecture Dr. Laura Diaz, Geospatial technologies research groupUniversitat Jaume, Spain, EuroGEOSS

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg GW as Web 2.0 Broker Client Example vgi.geo-wiki.org, BBOX in SE Asia (Thailand) flickr content in BBOX tagged “nature” Combined disagreement map in the background

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Geowiki Components + Google Earth API stick to OpenSource wherever possible

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg The 3D globe still offers the best „free“ imagry with highest resolution The 3D globe still offers the best „free“ imagry with highest resolution ease of integration ease of integration at the time of start the only 3D tool that integrated into a browser (via the GE plugin) at the time of start the only 3D tool that integrated into a browser (via the GE plugin) Last not least: Fascination 3D (could do it 2D only?!) Last not least: Fascination 3D (could do it 2D only?!) This was all Open Source, but Why Google Earth API?

CitiZense pp Christian Schill, University Freiburg Thanks for your interest! Christian Schill University of Freiburg Dep. Remote Sensing and Landscape Information systems