| Kids and Collective Spatial Cognition in Community Mappings |
| Paper ID : 1208-SMPR |
| Authors: |
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Ali Zare Zardiny *1, Farshad Hakimpour2 1School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran 2Faculty of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran |
| Abstract: |
| Due to the importance of spatial data in decision making and the costly process of data collecting, in recent years, some different communities try to collaborate on spatial data collection. In these communities, some expert and non-expert volunteers record their observations of a region in order to create a map. In this activities, one of the most effective tools of observations recording is the sketch map. Due to easiness of use and not needing comply with the common rules in Geospatial Information Systems, these types of maps can be drawn by a wide range of people. Although several studies have focused on raising the level of participation of people in the mapping activities, less attention has been given to the role of kids as an important part of society. Hence, this paper in a field study, examines the effect of collective spatial cognition of kids in a mapping activity. For this purpose, the sketches drawn by 50 kids aged 8 to 10 years are matched and then integrated together, and finally, the output of this process is compared with available metric maps. The results of this study show that, despite the stringent conditions and the low age of the participants, the achieved results have been beyond expectations. In this study, kids have provided a number of landmarks as well as more descriptive information of the region compared to the data downloaded from OpenStreetMap and Google Maps. Therefore, the output of this study can be used to enrich available metric map. |
| Keywords: |
| Kids, Spatial Cognition, Community Mappings, Sketch maps, Qualitative GIS, Public Participatory GIS |
| Status : Conditional Accept (Oral Presentation) |
