On VGI and crowdsourcing

Teaching resources and material I have prepared for conferences and workshops.

Workshop- Dec. 2019

This workshop took place in Santo Domingo (Dom. Rep.) and lasted 3 days. Opportunity to discover the basics of volunteered geographic information (VGI) and how could benefit our country. We also presented the successful project OpenStreetMap, their history and world contributions. Aspects related to the quality and usefulness of volunteered obtained information were discussed on the third day. The presentation can be found here. Below a capture of the Prezi-timeline used to highlight Web 2.0 enabling technologies. Can you guess what are these?

Conference- Aug. 2020

This virtual conference lasted an hour. It covered the usefulness and growth of volunteered geographic information and successful projects that benefit from VGI such as OpenStreetMap, Mapillary, Waze and others. The material presented can be found here.

The full presentation was uploaded on YouTube. This is the link.

On Cartography

Here I intend to upload the resources I had prepared for my Cartography and GIS class. I teach this subject at UASD, specifically within the Remote sensing master’s program.