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Articles | Volume XLII-2/W7
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-17-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLII-2-W7-17-2017
12 Sep 2017
 | 12 Sep 2017

DOCUMENTATION OF HERITAGE STRUCTURES THROUGH GEO-CROWDSOURCING AND WEB-MAPPING

H. K. Dhonju, W. Xiao, B. Shakya, J. P. Mills, and V. Sarhosis

Keywords: Crowdsourcing, Documentation, Tangible Heritage, Visualization, Volunteered Geographic Information, Web-mapping

Abstract. Heritage documentation has become increasingly urgent due to both natural impacts and human influences. The documentation of countless heritage sites around the globe is a massive project that requires significant amounts of financial and labour resources. With the concepts of volunteered geographic information (VGI) and citizen science, heritage data such as digital photographs can be collected through online crowd participation. Whilst photographs are not strictly geographic data, they can be geo-tagged by the participants. They can also be automatically geo-referenced into a global coordinate system if collected via mobile phones which are now ubiquitous. With the assistance of web-mapping, an online geo-crowdsourcing platform has been developed to collect and display heritage structure photographs. Details of platform development are presented in this paper. The prototype is demonstrated with several heritage examples. Potential applications and advancements are discussed.