BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE: THE CROWDSOURCING OF "STREETBUMP": AN AUTOMATIC POTHOLE MAPPING APP
This paper traces the genesis and development of StreetBump, a smartphone application to map the location of potholes in Boston, Massachusetts. StreetBump belongs to a special category of "subliminal" crowdsourcing mobile applications that turn humans into sensors. Once started, it automat...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Copernicus Publications
2013-05-01
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| Series: | The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences |
| Online Access: | http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XL-4-W1/19/2013/isprsarchives-XL-4-W1-19-2013.pdf |