[Geowanking] looking for paper and domain suggestions

Reid Priedhorsky reid at umn.edu
Tue Jan 8 12:10:51 PST 2008


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.

Reid



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