[Geowanking] looking for paper and domain suggestions

[Mike Liebhold]

Hi Reid,

Mapping risks, especially health and safety risks is a promising new 
domain for both public health, for planning public services, business 
locations and logistics, crime prevention, and even automotive safety.  
conversely, mapping especially healthy and safe areas might also be 
interesting and useful for e.g health tourism, sports and fitness, and 
choosing places to live.

If you decide to explore these topics, please let me know.  I'm 
particularly interested on how this kind of data might be processed, 
rendered and used.

Cheers-

Mike

Michael Liebhold
Senior Researcher
Institute for the Future
iftf.org/people/mliebhold <http://www.iftf.org/people/mliebhold.html>


Reid Priedhorsky 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.
>
> Reid
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