[Gfgi] cfp: book: "OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications"

Sa Nov 16 14:10:49 CET 2013

Dear All,

I would like to share a call for book chapter proposals on 
"OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research & applications", 
which will be published in the Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and 
Cartography series of Springer.
(more info in the attached file and below this note).
Please feel free to spread the word and share it in your institutes and 
among your colleagues.

We are looking forward to your contributions and supports.

Kind Regards,
alexander zipf
http://giscience.uni-hd.de
http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de

please excuse in case you receive this several times.
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*Call for Chapter Proposal Submission*

*OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, and applications*

Edited by

Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography,
University of Heidelberg, Germany

Alexander Zipf
GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography,
University of Heidelberg, Germany

Peter Mooney
Department of Computer Science,
NUI Maynooth, Ireland

Marco Helbich,
Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning,
Utrecht University, the Netherlands

*Introduction*

The radical societal and Information Technology changes brought about by 
the Internet and social media and the availability of inexpensive 
portable satellite navigation devices has seen the traditional geodata 
business model challenged and being changed radically. One of the key 
driving forces in this change has been Volunteered Geographic 
Information of which OpenStreetMap is one of the most famous projects. 
OpenStreetMap was developed with the motto of "creating a free editable 
map of the world" in a collaborative manner so that people and end-users 
are not forced to buy geodata in the traditional way and subsequently be 
subject to restrictive copyright commitments. OpenStreetMap started with 
a focus on mapping streets and roads. Since then it has moved far beyond 
these entities and it now contains a very rich variety of geographical 
objects all over the planet being mapped by hundreds and thousands of 
volunteer contributors to the project.
The gradual evolution of the OpenStreetMap eco-system has been very 
successfully. The project had a slow start but since 2007 there has been 
an ever increasing rate of people joining the project with just over 
1.42 million registered users in November 2013. The academic and 
industrial communities have recognized OpenStreetMap not solely based on 
its rise to prominence in becoming an important distributor of geodata 
but its wider success in growing a global community of people who 
support the OpenStreetMap project. The OpenStreetMap community is 
actively involved in much more than collecting geodata to build and 
maintain its global database. The community is involved in: humanitarian 
work in many regions; open source software development to support 
OpenStreetMap and the GIS community; and in building a network of 
support for those using and contributing to the OpenStreetMap project. 
In recent years several scientific disciplines (e.g., geography, 
GIScience, spatial planning, cartography, computer science, social 
science, and ecology) have realized the immense potential of 
OpenStreetMap and it has become the subject of academic research. The 
OpenStreetMap offered researchers a unique dataset which is global in 
scale and a body of knowledge created and maintained by a very large 
collaborative network of volunteers. Research on OpenStreetMap has shown 
that it's geodata in some parts of the world are more complete and 
locationally and semantically more accurate than the corresponding 
proprietary datasets.

*Objectives and Scope*

The main objective of the intended edited volume is to seek  experiences 
using OpenStreetMap including cutting edge scientific investigations on 
OpenStreetMap from different geodata and users perspectives as well as 
developed and under development applications benefiting from 
OpenStreetMap and the advancement and promotion of OpenStreetMap in 
GIScience. Due to the complexity, inter- and trans-disciplinary nature 
of collaborative mapping projects such as OpenStreetMap, submissions of 
chapter proposals from an extensive range of scientific disciplines such 
as geography, cartography, computer science, statistics, geographic 
information science, sociology, urban planning, environment planning, 
transportation, and civil engineering  are highly welcome.

The edited book is scheduled to be published by Springer in its leading 
series in GIScience "Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography" 
series, edited by William Cartwright, George Gartner, Liqiu Meng, and 
Michael P. Peterson. For more detailed information about this series, we 
refer to the Springer webpage, accessible via the following link 
http://www.springer.com/series/7418.

The book seeks to build a firm foundation for research work focused on 
integrating OpenStreetMap. Chapters should address the following 
research topics, however not limited to:

a) State-of-the-art and cutting-edge approaches for data quality 
analysis and data fusion techniques in OpenStreetMap and other 
Volunteered Geographic Information sources,
b) Investigations on understanding OpenStreetMap contributors and the 
nature of their contributions,
c) Identification of patterns of contributions and contributors in 
OpenStreetMap,
d) Advancing methods for desktop, online, and mobile applications of 
OpenStreetMap in different domains (e.g. 3D, routing, traffic, disaster 
management, health, crime, history, ecology, etc.),
e) Mining value-added knowledge and information from OpenStreetMap,
f) Limitations and possibilities in the analysis of OpenStreetMap data,
g) Integration of OpenStreetMap with commercial and non-commercial 
geodatasets,
h) Emergence and evolution of OpenStreetMap across the world,
i) OpenStreetMap's contribution to GIScience.

*Submission and Important Dates*

All chapter proposals will be evaluated by a committee of experts before 
author(s) are being invited to submit their full book chapters. Chapters 
must not have been published elsewhere. Unpublished conference 
presentations and extended conference works are acceptable. Published 
conference presentations (e.g., in a proceedings volume) may be 
acceptable if the full copyright can be transferred.

*Submission procedure for chapter proposals (abstracts):*
Length: 1-2 pages
Format: Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF
Figures/Tables: Must be legible (<300 dpi are accepted at this stage)

*Important dates*:
January 31, 2014: Chapter proposal submission deadline
February 28, 2014: Notification of chapter acceptance/rejection and 
invitation to submit full chapters
May 30, 2014: Final chapter submission deadline
July 30, 2014: Acceptance/rejection notification sent to author(s)
September 30, 2014: Final revised chapter submission deadline
December, 2014: Expected publication of book

*General*:
Submissions must include the author's names, affiliation, mailing 
address, and e-mail address. In the case of multiple authors, all names, 
addresses, etc., must accompany the submission and a corresponding 
author should be identified.
If submitting a published conference presentation (e.g., one that has 
already appeared in a proceedings volume), the author(s) must provide 
proof that the article's full copyright can be transferred. Submissions 
must be sent as an e-mail attachment to Jamal Jokar Arsanjani using the 
e-mail address listed above.

*Notification*:
Notification regarding the status of each proposal will be sent by 
February 28, 2014 to all those who submitted a chapter proposal. At that 
time, authors whose chapter proposals have been accepted will also be 
e-mailed guidelines regarding full book chapter preparation.

*Post-acceptance information:*
The full book chapter deadline is May 30, 2014. Following receipt, full 
chapters will be sent out for double-blind review. The Editors will make 
the final decision regarding final acceptance of each book chapter. All 
chapters with revision requests (if necessary) need to be completed by 
September 30, 2014.

*Inquiries* should be directed to:

Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography
University of Heidelberg
Berliner Straße 48
D-69120 Heidelberg, Germany
http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/personen/gis_arsanjani.html
jokar.arsanjani at geog.uni-heidelberg.de 
<mailto:jokar.arsanjani at geog.uni-heidelberg.de>
Tel.: +49(0)6221 / 54 5572
Fax: +49(0)6221 / 54 4529

GIScience Research Group
http://giscience.uni-hd.de
http://giscienceblog.uni-hd.de
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