Folks,
Thanks for your kind responses! Reading these and some others from other
sources, it's clear that my list of criteria are incomplete. Here's a
better list:
a. geographic, but not just tagging places or regions with info -- some
kind of interconnectedness is necessary
b. changing over time, especially when the geography itself changes
c. the domain supports real activities
d. the activities require planning
e. user input of some kind is useful
So, for example, I think snow removal and public health analysis.
Traffic congestion on non-freeways is less clear: can users give info of
high-enough detail and quality to answer Tom's questions?
Here's some of the things brainstormed so far:
- monitoring routes and use patterns in natural areas (ORVs, canoeing)
- wildfire management
- air travel (vendor POV)
- air travel (passenger POV)
- street maps when institutional maps are inappropriate for whatever
reason (e.g. OpenStreetMaps)
- public health
- municipal bus/train travel (cataloging the quirks that the
transportation authorities don't monitor)
- cycling
Any other thoughts?
Thanks again,
Reid
Tom Longson (nym) wrote:
I'm particularly interested in traffic-congestion analysis for areas
other than freeways. It is geographic, changes over time (especially
when roads close), supports commuters and possibly emergency services,
and can be studied for future trends, e.g. "If you leave your house
now, you'll arrive in 40 minutes. If you leave your house in thirty
minutes, you'll arrive in 20."
I have no real experience in this area though, so there may be work
that I'm unaware of in progress.
Cheers,
Tom Longson
On Jan 8, 2008 12:10 PM, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear geowankers,
I'm a researcher at the University of Minnesota, and I was hoping some
of you might help point me to background material and related work for
our upcoming geographic wiki paper. We'd like to relate our results as
broadly as possible.
1. We are studying domains which are:
a. geographic
b. changing over time, especially when the geography itself changes
c. the domain supports real activities
d. the activities require planning
For example, such domains might be bicycling (weather, construction,
new roads come and old ones go, navigating a bicycle requires deciding
where to go and how to get there), shopping in a mall, finding one's way
around a new city or neighborhood, or natural resource management (e.g.
monitoring routes and use patterns).
Do you have suggestions for other domains that meet these criteria?
The more unrelated to what I've mentioned already, the better.
2. Any suggestions for important collaborative GIS work that we should
look at?
Many thanks, and please let me know what questions you all have.
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