[Gfgi] CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS::::"Crowdsourced Mapping" a Special Content Issue of Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS)

[Alexander Zipf]

Dear colleagues,

Enclosed, please find our call for papers for a special issue to
Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS).

Kind regards,
Alexander Zipf
http://www.geog.uni-heidelberg.de/gis


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CALL FOR MANUSCRIPT PROPOSAL SUBMISSIONS

"Crowdsourced Mapping"


To be published as a Special Content Issue of Cartography and
Geographic Information Science (CaGIS)


Edited by
Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani1 & Prof. Michael Leitner2 & Prof. Alexander Zipf1

1GIScience Research Group, Department of Geography, Heidelberg
University, Heidelberg, Germany
2Department of Geography and Anthropology, Louisiana State University,
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

Manuscript Proposal Submission Deadline: Sunday, November 30, 2014

The Guest Editors invite submissions of manuscript proposals that can
be considered for inclusion in this Special Content Issue of CaGIS,
which is scheduled to be published by Taylor and Francis
(http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/current) in the June 2016 Issue.

Submissions are welcome from the academic, public, and private
sectors. All manuscript proposals will be evaluated by a committee of
experts before author(s) are being invited to submit the full
manuscript. Manuscripts must not have been published elsewhere.
Unpublished conference presentations are acceptable. Published
conference presentations (e.g., in a proceedings volume) may be
acceptable if the full copyright can be transferred.

Cartography and Geographic Information Science is an international
journal and one of the three official journals of the International
Cartographic Association (ICA). It is abstracted and indexed in
EBSCOhost; Elsevier BV; Compendex; GEOBASE; Scopue; Gale; National
Library of Medicine; PubMed; OCLC; Ovid; ProQuest; The Engineering
Index Monthly; Thomson Reuters; Social Sciences Citation Index; and
the Web of Science.  More information about CaGIS can be found under
http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tcag20/current.


Appropriate topics to be included in this Special Issue are, but not
limited to
* Collaborative mapping
* Volunteered Geographic information (VGI)
* Citizen Science
* Human as sensors (Sensor-enabled Humans)
* Mapping user generated geographic information from the crowd e.g.,
social media (Flickr, Instagram, Panoramio, ?), telecommunication
services, social networks (Facebook, Twitter, ?), sensor networks
* Uncertainty mapping
* Data/information quality visualization
* Spatial/temporal visualization of crowd analysis
* Indicators for Volunteered Geographic Information and citizen science
* (Re)Mapping unmapped features from the crowd
* Collaborative mapping and governments
* Data mining and fusion of crowd-based data/information with
authoritative data
* Metadata production
* Mapping costs and benefits
* Crowd-based data/information for diverse applications e.g.,
cities/environmental monitoring, disaster management, landscape
analysis, land use/cover monitoring, social science, ecology, ?
* Emerging topics and datasets generated from/by the crowd
* Big geo(data)
* OpenStreetMap
* Geospatial analysis and internet of things (IoT)
* Digital divide and (geo)information dissemination



Time-Line
October 7, 2014:		First solicitation of manuscript proposal submission
November 30, 2014:		Manuscript proposal submission deadline
December 31, 2014:		Invitation notification to submit full manuscript
September 30, 2015:		Final manuscript submission deadline
November 30, 2015:		Acceptance / rejection notification sent to author(s)
February 28, 2016:		Final revised manuscript submission deadline
April 2016:			Publication in Taylor and Francis Online
							(http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/tcag20#.VCut5PldVIE)
September 2016:	Publication of CaGIS Special Content Issue (hard-copy)

Inquiries should be directed to
Dr. Jamal Jokar Arsanjani
GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University
Berlinerstrasse 48, D-69120, Heidelberg
jokar.arsanjani at geog.uni-heidelberg.de
Tel: +49-6221-54-5572
OR
Dr. Michael Leitner
Full Professor
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
mleitne at lsu.edu
(225) 578-2963 office
(225) 773-7862 cell

Submission Procedure for the Manuscript Proposal

Length:  1-3 pages

Format:  Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF

Figures/Tables:  Must be legible

General:  Submissions must include the author's name, affiliation,
mailing address and e-mail address. In the case of multiple authors,
all names, addresses, etc., must accompany the submission and a single
individual must be identified as the primary point of contact.

If submitting a published conference presentation (e.g., one that has
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 the editor using
the e-mail address listed above.


Submission Deadline

Manuscript proposals must be received by midnight US Central Standard
Time on or before November 30, 2014.


Notification

Notification regarding the status of each proposal will be sent by
December 31, 2014 to all those who submitted a manuscript proposal. At
that time, authors whose manuscript proposals have been accepted will
also be e-mailed guidelines regarding manuscript preparation.


Post-Acceptance Information

The full manuscript deadline is September 30, 2015. Following receipt,
full manuscripts will be sent out for double-blind review. The Editors
will make the final decision regarding final acceptance of
manuscripts. All manuscripts with revisions (if necessary) need to be
completed by February 28, 2016.




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