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Starting a Spatially Enabled Society: a Web System for Collecting Volunteered Geographic Information in the Area of Public Security

Authors:
Jarbas Nunes Vidal Filho
Jugurta Lisboa Filho
Wagner Dias de Souza
Diogo Franklin de Oliveira

Keywords: Volunteered Geographic Information; Web Systems; Google Maps; Public Security

Abstract:
A spatially enabled society provides to citizens, businesses and government access to spatial data regardless of computing platform. The article describes a collaborative Web system to gather geographic information about the area of public security and disseminate it at all levels of a society using Web 2.0 tools. The data generated by the user become another source of data for agencies involved in public security to use the information in order to try to minimize violence and allow citizens to protect themselves from criminality.

Pages: 151 to 154

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: February 24, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-393X

ISBN: 978-1-61208-251-6

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from February 24, 2013 to March 1, 2013