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Mapping Community Engagement with Urban Crowd-Sourcing

@inproceedings{Hristova2012MappingCE,
  title={Mapping Community Engagement with Urban Crowd-Sourcing},
  author={Desislava Hristova and Afra Jahanbakhsh Mashhadi and Giovanni Quattrone and Licia Capra},
  booktitle={ICWSM 2012},
  year={2012}
}
Cities are highly dynamic entities, with urban elements such as businesses, cultural and social Points-of- Interests (POIs), housing, transportation and the like, continuously changing. [] Key Result We observe that spatially clustered crowd-sourcing communities produce higher coverage than those with looser geographic affinity. We discuss the positive implications that this has on the future of urban crowd-sourcing.
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