![]() Google Earth) or web-based platforms (e.g. At that point, rudimentary crowdsourced Geographic Information (GI) was created and disseminated freely with the help of innovative desktop applications (e.g. Defining VGI In a seminal paper published in 2007, Mike Goodchild coined the term Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in an effort to describe 'the widespread engagement of large numbers of private citizens, often with little in the way of formal qualifications, in the creation of geographic information' (Goodchild, 2007: 217). Our aim is to provide an accessible overview of the area, which has grown rapidly in the past decade, but first we need to define what we mean by VGI. ![]() ![]() This chapter will introduce the concept of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) within practices of mapping and cartography.
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