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The rise of Web 2.0 and the current, unprecedented diffusion of mobile devices have laid new foundations for the development of PGIS (Participatory GIS). This study evaluates the possibility of exploiting FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) tools to build up a PGIS prototype providing Web publication of user field-collected data. Besides increasing public awareness and collaboration, user-generated content should also enlarge the knowledge of specific phenomena up to the local level. A prototype architecture was designed and tested in relation to a simple, planning-related case study, i.e., the report of road pavement damages. Open Data Kit suite was used to gather georeferenced multimedia data using mobile device sensors (e.g., the GPS) and to store them into a PostgreSQL database with PostGIS spatial extension. Data was then Web-published using GeoServer. Web access was finally enabled from both traditional desktop-computers and mobile platforms through ad hoc OpenLayers and Leaflet clientside solutions. The architecture provided support for FOSS applicability within the typical PGIS-related tasks, from field survey to data storage, management and dissemination on the Internet. This bottom-up communication paradigm, which exploits real-time, freely available user contributions, can become a potentially precious tool for making decision-processes more democratic, faster and ultimately better.

La gestione e la promozione del patrimonio naturale rappresentano sfide importanti per gli enti locali e regionali preposti. Oggi più che mai vi è necessità di introdurre tecnologie all'avanguardia nelle procedure gestionali e di comunicazione degli enti gestori, al fine di aumentarne la competitività rispetto a uno scenario turistico internazionale, nonché in un'ottica di ottimizzazione delle risorse. Il progetto INSUBRI.PARKS, finanziato dal programma di cooperazione Interreg Italia-Svizzera 2014-2020 (https://interreg-italiasvizzera.eu/database_progetti/insubri-parks), mira al potenziamento dell'attrattività dei parchi transfrontalieri dell'area insubrica, compresa tra Lombardia (IT) e Canton Ticino (CH), attraverso la creazione di nuovi itinerari tematici e l'introduzione di strumenti web e software per la gestione, la promozione e il monitoraggio delle aree protette. In parallelo al potenziamento infrastrutturale, il progetto ha come obiettivo la creazione di un sistema di gestione trasversale e condiviso dei parchi transfrontalieri dedicato al marketing territoriale. Il sistema include lo sviluppo di una infrastruttura IT standardizzata per facilitare la raccolta, l'accesso, lo scambio e il riutilizzo di informazioni strategiche per la gestione dell'attività turistica. Data la diretta connessione con il territorio dei soggetti coinvolti, i dati considerati sono prevalentemente di natura geografica. Questi includono dati cartografici di base utili alla caratterizzazione dell'offerta turistico-culturale degli attrattori locali e della mobilità pubblica e pedonale. A causa del contesto politico frammentato, la creazione di una cartografia digitale comune rappresenta il primo passo verso la gestione integrata del turismo nelle aree di confine. La base di dati verrà estesa introducendo osservazioni sui dei flussi di visitatori, raccolte nei siti più emblematici da una rete di sensori low-cost che verrà messa in opera durante il progetto. Infine, contenuti crowdsourcing (social media) o VGI (Volunteered ...

Citizen science can be thought of as a tremendous catalyst for making Digital Earth a participation model of our world. This chapter presents a wide overview of the concept and practice of citizen science in terms of the technologies and social impact. Definitions of citizen science and various existing approaches to citizen involvement are described, from simple contributions to projects proposed by someone else to the design and planning of science as a bottom-up process. To illustrate these concepts, the relevant example of OpenStreetMap is described in detail, and other examples are mentioned and briefly discussed. Social innovation connected with citizen science is focused on to highlight different levels of direct citizen contributions to scientific research and indirect effects on academia, and studies driven by new questions that may support responsible research and innovation (RRI), governments and public administration in making better informed decisions. Despite its growth and success in relatively few years, citizen science has not fully overcome a number of persistent challenges related to quality, equity, inclusion, and governance. These themes and related complex facets are discussed in detail in the last section of the chapter.

Two new global urban products have recently appeared: the Global Urban Footprint (GUF) and the Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL). This paper evaluates the GUF and GHSL for the city of Milan, Italy through comparison with two European Union (EU) land use/cover reference products, namely the Urban Atlas and LUCAS. The results demonstrate that the GUF and GHSL are very similar to each other and, with some exceptions, show overall good agreement with the reference datasets. This study will be extended to other European cities in the future.

The paper presents the outcomes of an Educational Challenge launched by the OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial Foundation) United Nations (UN) Committee in 2018. The Committee promotes the development and use of open source software that meets UN needs and supports the aims of the UN. The Challenge supported the UN OpenGIS Initiative, a project ". to identify and develop an Open Source GIS bundle that meets the requirements of UN operations, taking full advantage of the expertise of mission partners including partner nations, technology contributing countries, international organizations, academia, NGOs, private sector". The UN OpenGIS Initiative is organized into working groups, called 'Spirals'. The OSGeo UN Challenge called for the development of training material that can be used for training UN staff working on Spirals 1 and 3. Spiral 1 focuses on a new open source web platform for data collection and Spiral 3 is related to new functionalities needed by UN staff during their field operations. The material developed for the challenges is now openly available for anybody, reaching a wider audience than only UN staff members. This paper describes the challenges and the training material developed for them. Expertise from all over the world was pulled together in designing, mentoring and developing the material. ; Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Korean government ; http://www.isprs.org/publications/archives.aspx ; pm2020 ; Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology

This presentation was given at FOSS4G Europe 2017 conference (http://europe.foss4g.org/2017) held in Paris on July 18-22, 2017. It presents MIGRATE – MIGRation pATterns in Europe (http://geomobile.como.polimi.it/migrate), a game-based Web Mapping application to educate and raise awareness about the phenomenon of migration. The presentation shows the architecture and logic of the game, and the results obtained aftern analyzing 15k+ games played by users. The application is released under the open source European Union Public License (EUPL) and is fully based on open data. More information is available on the paper written for the conference, available at https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W2/51/2017. ; This application was developed within the MYGEOSS project, which has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. Data used within MIGRATE were provided by OpenStreetMap, UNHCR, IOM, The Migrants' Files project and Eurostat.

The enormous migratory flows in the European Union and in the Mediterranean area are influencing the lives of people residing in the hosting countries. Nevertheless, the real magnitude of this phenomenon often remains unknown to citizens and can generate erroneous perceptions. MIGRation pATterns in Europe (MIGRATE) is a Web Mapping application whose goal is to educate and raise the awareness of citizens on this topic. To our best knowledge, this is the first attempt to apply in a modern way the methods and tools of Geomatics to migration-related themes. MIGRATE was developed within the MYGEOSS project of the European Commission-Joint Research Center (JRC), which has received funding from the Horizon 2020 Programme. Completely based on open data and open source technologies and designed with a gamification approach, MIGRATE engages players to learn while playing a map-based trivia game. The architecture of the application is based on the Django framework and makes use of a PostgreSQL database for the server side. The client side is built through HTML5, CSS3 and Bootstrap and makes use of OpenLayers for map management and jQuery for the interface. The analysis of the players' answers clearly shows how their awareness of migration-related issues overall increased after playing several times to MIGRATE.

This presentation was given at FOSS4G Europe 2017 conference (http://europe.foss4g.org/2017). It presents the first findings of the project giCASES - Creating a University-Enterprise Alliance for a Spatially Enabled Society (http://gicases.eu), which is a Knowledge Alliance project funded under the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission. The key point of giCASES approach is the introduction of a case-based learning approach in education, based on the co-creation of knowledge between universities and enterprises working in the field of Geographic Information. More information can be found in the paper submitted for the Academic Track of FOSS4G Europe 2017, which is available under a CC-BY 4.0 license at https://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLII-4-W2/129/2017. ; This work was supported by the project "giCASES – Creating a University-Enterprise Alliance for a Spatially Enabled Society", co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, Knowledge Alliances N° 562657-EPP-A-2015-1-IT-EPPKA2-KA.