OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a collaborative web-mapping project that collects geospatial data to create and distribute online maps, freely available to anyone with an Internet connection. Once accessed, OpenStreetMap allows Internet users to contribute and edit geospatial data, effectively making it the mapping equivalent of Wikipedia. OpenStreetMap is maintained by volunteer cartographers from around the world who use GPS devices, portable cameras, and laptops for field mapping. Collected data are complemented with digitised open source aerial photography and free maps from the governmental and commercial sources. This report provides a summary of OpenStreetMap as a remarkable example of participatory geographic information systems (GIS).

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OpenStreetMap

Geographic Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2038-4.ch033 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 540-549 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kevin Curran ◽

John Crumlish ◽

Gavin Fisher

Keyword(s):

Geographic Information Systems ◽

Aerial Photography ◽

Geographic Information ◽

Geospatial Data ◽

Web Mapping ◽

Internet Connection ◽

Internet Users ◽

The World ◽

Commercial Sources ◽

Gps Devices

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A semi-automated workflow for processing historic aerial photography

Abstracts of the ICA ◽

10.5194/ica-abs-1-299-2019 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Nathan Piekielek

Keyword(s):

Satellite Imagery ◽

Aerial Photography ◽

Large Scale ◽

Geographic Information ◽

Structured Data ◽

Geospatial Data ◽

Aerial Photographs ◽

Web Mapping ◽

Technical Specifications ◽

The U.S

Abstract. Libraries, museums and archives were the original big geospatial information repositories that to this day house thousands to millions of resources containing research-quality geographic information. However, these print resources (and their digital surrogates), are not easily incorporated into the contemporary research process because they are not structured data that is required of web-mapping and geographic information system tools. Fortunately, contemporary big data tools and methods can help with the large-scale conversion of historic resources into structured datasets for mapping and spatial analysis.Single frame historic aerial photographs captured originally on film (hereafter “photographs”), are some of the most ubiquitous and information-rich geographic information resources housed in libraries, museums and archives. Photographs authentically encoded information about past places and time-periods without the thematic focus and cartographic generalization of historic print maps. As such, they contain important information in nearly every category of base mapping (i.e. transportation networks, populated places etc.), that is useful to a broad spectrum of research projects and other applications. Photographs are also some of the most frustrating historic resources to use due to their very large map-scale (i.e. small geographic area), lack of reference information and often unknown metadata (i.e. index map, flight altitude, direction etc.).The capture of aerial photographs in the contiguous United States (U.S.) became common in the 1920s and was formalized in government programs to systematically photograph the nation at regular time intervals beginning in the 1930s. Many of these photography programs continued until the 1990s meaning that there are approximately 70 years of “data” available for the U.S. that is currently underutilized due to inaccessibility and the challenges of converting photographs to structured data. Large collections of photographs include government (e.g. the U.S. Department of Agriculture Aerial Photography Field Office “The Vault” – over 10 million photographs), educational (e.g. the University of California Santa Barbara Library – approximately 2.5 million photographs), and an unknown number non-governmental organizations (e.g. numerous regional planning commissions and watershed conservation groups). Collectively these photography resources constitute an untapped big geospatial data resource.U.S. government photography programs such as the National Agricultural Imagery Program continued and expanded in the digital age (i.e. post early 2000s), so that not only is there opportunity to extend spatial analyses back in time, but also to create seamless datasets that integrate with current and expected future government aerial photography campaigns. What is more, satellite imagery sensors have improved to the point that there is now overlap between satellite imagery and aerial photography in terms of many of their technical specifications (i.e. spatial resolution etc.). The remote capture of land surface imagery is expanding rapidly and with it are new opportunities to explore long-term land-change analyses that require historical datasets.Manual methods to process photographs are well-known, but are too labour intensive to apply to entire photography collections. Academic research on methods to increase the discoverability of photographs and convert them to geospatial data at large-scale has to date been limited (although see the work of W. Karel et al.). This presentation details a semi-automated workflow to process historic aerial photographs from U.S. government sources and compares the workflow and results to existing methods and datasets. In a pilot test area of 94 photographs in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, the workflow was found to be nearly 100-times more efficient than commonly employed alternatives while achieving greater horizontal positional accuracy. Results compared favourably to contemporary digital aerial photography data products, suggesting that they are well-suited for integration with contemporary datasets. Finally, initial results of the workflow were incorporated into several existing online discovery and sharing platforms that will be highlighted in this presentation. Early online usage statistics as well as direct interaction with users demonstrates the broad interest and high-impact of photographs and their derived products (i.e. structured geospatial data).

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Turning the lights on to keep them in the fold: How governments preempt secession attempts

Conflict Management and Peace Science ◽

10.1177/07388942211015242 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 073889422110152

Author(s):

Rob Williams

Keyword(s):

Necessary Conditions ◽

Geospatial Data ◽

Civil Conflicts ◽

Relative Paucity ◽

International Borders ◽

The World ◽

Large Populations ◽

Nighttime Light ◽

Cross National

There are many regions that meet the necessary conditions for sovereign governance in the world, but few secessionist conflicts. I argue that this relative paucity of secessionist violence is the result of government preemption of potential secessionist movements. Using cross-national geospatial data from 1992 to 2013, I find that governments invest more, measured via nighttime light emissions, in more secession-prone regions. The same factors that make territory attractive for secession, such as large populations and international borders, also make governments willing to work to retain control of that territory, contributing to the scarcity of separatist civil conflicts.

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SEMANTIC DESCRIPTION FOR THE TAXONOMY OF THE GEOSPATIAL SERVICES

Boletim de Ciências Geodésicas ◽

10.1590/s1982-21702015000300029 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 21 (3) ◽

pp. 515-531 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hao Li ◽

Yandong Wang ◽

Penggen Cheng

Keyword(s):

Information System ◽

World Wide ◽

Geospatial Data ◽

Semantic Description ◽

Matching Method ◽

The World ◽

The Hierarchical Structure ◽

Description Framework ◽

Geospatial Services ◽

Readable Format

Abstract:With the advances in the World Wide Web and Geographic Information System, geospatial services have progressively developed to provide geospatial data and processing functions online. In order to efficiently discover and manage the large amount of geospatial services, these services are registered with semantic descriptions and categorized into classes according to certain taxonomies. Most taxonomies for geospatial services are only provided in the human readable format. The lack of semantic description for taxonomies limits the semantic-based discovery of geospatial services. The objectives of this paper are proposing an approach to semantically describe the taxonomy of geospatial services and using the semantic descriptions for taxonomy to improve the discovery of geospatial services. A semantic description framework is introduced for geospatial service taxonomy to describe not only the hierarchical structure of classes but also the definitions for all classes. The semantic description of taxonomy base on this framework is further used to simplify the semantic description and registration of geospatial services and enhance the semantic-based service matching method.

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THE ROLE OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA IN THE TEACHING OF THE ART

Knowledge International Journal ◽

10.35120/kij3402547i ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 547-553

Author(s):

Vojislav Ilić ◽

Tamara Stojanović-Đorđević ◽

Andrijana Šikl-Erski

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Visual Arts ◽

New Technologies ◽

Fine Arts ◽

Educational Process ◽

Input Output ◽

Internet Connection ◽

Modern Media ◽

The World ◽

Contemporary Media

We are witnessing that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have a huge impact on the functioning of the world. This explains why the tools they provide play such an important role in the educational process, their use opens up numerous opportunities and perspectives in education. Today, aware of the inevitability of digital technologies in the functioning of the world, and of the benefits they bring, we try to use them as meaningfully as possible in education.In the visual arts, ICT technologies provide various opportunities for exploring multicultural and multi-technological content. The social tendencies of the 21st century set new criteria for the modern man - creativity, flexibility and innovation, which also requires the development of educational systems in accordance with these new, changing conditions. In the context of contemporary teaching and the education process in the field of art, new technologies certainly deserve special attention as a medium and a means that enables students to apply them to innovative forms of communication, research, learning and creative expression in the field of visual arts. Today's media bring flexibility, speed, accessibility, interchangeability of digital data and this is what makes contemporary media essential in the teaching of fine arts. The basis of modern media used in the teaching of fine arts are personal computers supported by internet connection, with specific software and various input-output devices. With the use of contemporary media in a specialized classroom for the teaching of fine arts, one can speak of an increase in the choice of teaching, an increase in the choice of means of learning and expression, and finally, an increase in individualization in teaching.In the twenty-first century classroom, the teaching of fine arts is increasingly influenced by external influences, so that the classroom is a place for students to learn, explore, do and evaluate works of art. The wealth of information offered through the use of information technology is multiplied by many over the traditional media. The basis of modern media used in the specialized classroom for the teaching of fine arts are computers supported by internet connection, with specific software and various input-output devices.

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Social Media and the Quality of Subjective Well-Being; Counseling Perspective in Digital Era

10.31219/osf.io/am7tr ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

Zadrian Ardi ◽

Indah Sukmawati

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Well Being ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Social Community ◽

Digital Era ◽

Internet Users ◽

The Social ◽

The World ◽

The Impact

Various studies in the information technology revealed that there has been a change in the trend of internet use in recent years. Internet users in the world prefer to spend time accessing the internet through the social media. Social media with a variety of platforms provides special communities with their own uniqueness and allows users to share lots of content. The members involves creates a new social community with various phenomena, both positive and negative. Counselors in the millennium era are required to have the insight andknowledge that is qualified to deal with the well being conditions of individuals from activities in social media. Counselors are also required to have specific skills in providing handling with the condition of well being individuals related to the impact of activities on social media.

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Free and Open Source Tools for Volunteer Geographic Information and Geo-Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-8362-2.ch041 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 838-863

Author(s):

Maria Antonia Brovelli ◽

Blagoj Delipetrev ◽

Giorgio Zamboni

Keyword(s):

Mobile Devices ◽

Mobile Device ◽

Technological Development ◽

Geographic Information ◽

Geospatial Data ◽

The Internet ◽

Volunteer Geographic Information ◽

The World ◽

User Friendly ◽

Gis Software

The availability of new mobile devices (tablets and smartphones) equipped with many sensors is changing or, better, enriching the way we monitor and sense the world that surrounds us. The internet has permeated completely not only our scientific and technological development, but also our life. Only some years ago, we used geospatial data and GIS software installed within our computers. Nowadays, data and operators are provided via the net by means of distributed and shared geo-services and a simple and powerless mobile device is enough to connect them. The possibility of interaction has become not only faster and more user friendly but also active, being individuals and communities free of adding, deleting, and changing contents in real time in the new GeoWeb2.0. This chapter explores GeoWeb2.0.

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World status of wild Rangifer tarandus populations

Rangifer ◽

10.7557/2.6.2.553 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 6 (2) ◽

pp. 19 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

T. Mark Williams ◽

Douglas C. Heard

Keyword(s):

North America ◽

North American ◽

Aerial Photography ◽

Rangifer Tarandus ◽

Population Estimates ◽

World Population ◽

South Georgia ◽

The World ◽

Strip Transect

We recognized 184 herds of wild Rangifer tarandus, 102 in North America, 55 in Europe, 24 in Asia and 3 on South Georgia. Seventy-five percent of the world population of 3.3 to 3.9 million animals occurred in nine herds. All seven herds larger than 120 000 animals were censused by some means of aerial photography and all were increasing. Herds between 20 000 and 120 000 were most often censused using aerial strip transect methods, while total counts were usually employed to census smaller herds. The most pronounced changes in Rangifer herd status between 1979 and 1985 occurred in North America where population "estimates for five herds increased by a total of about one million animals. Part of this increase is attributable to a change from visual to photographic surveys. Eighty-three percent of North American, 88% of European, and 68% of Asian herds were stable or increasing.

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Implrmrntasi Policy Base Routing Dan Failover Menggunakan Router Mikrotik Untuk Membagi Jalur Akses Inter Di Fakultas Komputer Universitas Bina Insan Lubuklinggau

Jurnal Ilmiah Betrik ◽

10.36050/betrik.v10i03.46 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (03) ◽

pp. 114-121

Author(s):

Armanto Armanto

Keyword(s):

Internet Access ◽

The Internet ◽

Access Points ◽

Internet Connection ◽

Network Connection ◽

Internet Users ◽

Internet Networks ◽

The University ◽

Collection Methods ◽

Internet Network

ABSTRACT The problem in this study is that more and more internet users in the Bina Insan Lubuklinggau University building specifically the Faculty of Computer internet connection often experience problems, the internet network is still unstable, and ways to divide internet access points in the Computer Faculty. This study uses data collection methods by observing and recording directly at the research site (Observation), conducting question and answer directly to the source (Interview), and documentation by reading literature books. The results showed that the internet is often experiencing constraints and unstable internet networks and ways to divide internet access points at the Computer Faculty of the University of Bina Insan Lubuklinggau by using Policy Base Routing and Failover Implementation using a Mikrotik Router. It can be concluded that the internet network connection is stable and shows the results of the distribution of internet access points at the Faculty of Computer Bina Insan Lubuklinggau. Keywords: Mikrotik, Policy Base Routing, Failover

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DAMPAK PANDEMI COVID-19 TERHADAP KEGIATAN PEMBELAJARAN ONLINE DI STMIK KOMPUTAMA MAJENANG

Jurnal Teknologi dan Bisnis ◽

10.37087/jtb.v2i2.21 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 16-25

Author(s):

Willy Setiawan ◽

Dede Yusuf

Keyword(s):

Elementary School ◽

Online Learning ◽

Data Collection ◽

Qualitative Methods ◽

Learning Activities ◽

Tertiary Level ◽

Internet Connection ◽

The World ◽

E Learning ◽

The Impact

COVID-19 is a virus originating from Wuhan, China that spread rapidly throughout the world. Indonesia began to be infected since the beginning of March 2020. The impact of the spread of COVID-19 caused losses to many countries, especially in the economic field. In the field of education, learning activities carried out in class are replaced online as a result of the spread of COVID-19 starting from elementary school to tertiary level. This study uses descriptive qualitative methods that describe online learning activities at STMIK Komputama Majenang during the COVID-19 pandemic that was held at home online. The object consists of 5 students of STMIK Komputama Majenang. Data collection was carried out using a questionnaire containing questions related to online learning at STMIK Komputama Majenang during the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the results of research, online learning activities at STMIK Komputama Majenang have been effective and run well. Some applications used in online learning are Web E-learning, WhatsApp, Telegram, Edmodo, YouTube, Zoom, and Google Classroom. Constraints experienced during online learning are problems with a bad internet connection, limited quota, difficulty in learning, and the presence of other people's distractions when learning takes place.

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