[OSM-dev] Call for book chapter proposals submission on "OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications"

[jamal jokar]

Dear all,

I would like to share with you a call for book chapter proposals submission
on "OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications", which
is copied below this message as well as this link. (
http://k1z.blog.uni-heidelberg.de/files/2013/11/call4chapters_osm_in_giscience.pdf
)

We are looking forward to receiving your contributions.

Please feel free to spread the call and apologies for probable cross
posting.

Kind regards from Heidelberg,
Jamal Jokar
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Call for Chapter Proposal Submission

OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research, applications


Edited by

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

Alexander Zipf
GIScience, 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)        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, 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<https://wwwmail.urz.uni-heidelberg.de/horde/imp/message.php?index=21#>
Tel.: +49(0)6221 / 54 5572
Fax: +49(0)6221 / 54 4529


Heidelberg, Nov 14, 2014
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