Building a National-Longitudinal Geospatial Bicycling Data Collection from Crowdsourcing
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Simone Z. Leao 1,*, Scott N. Lieske 2
, Lindsey Conrow 3, Jonathan Doig 1, Vandana Mann 1 and Chris J. Pettit 1
Simone Z. Leao 1,*, Scott N. Lieske 2, Lindsey Conrow 3, Jonathan Doig 1, Vandana Mann 1 and Chris J. Pettit 1
1
City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
2
School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane QLD 4072, Australia
3
School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85281, USA
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Urban Sci. 2017, 1(3), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/urbansci1030023
Received: 17 May 2017 / Revised: 16 June 2017 / Accepted: 26 June 2017 / Published: 28 June 2017
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Crowdsourcing Urban Data)
To realize the full potential of crowdsourced data collected by smartphone applications in urban research and planning, there is a need for parsimonious, reliable, computationally and temporally efficient data processing routines. The literature indicates that the opportunities brought by crowdsourced data in generating low-cost, bottom-up, and fine spatial and temporal scale data, are also accompanied by issues related to data quality, bias, privacy concerns and low accessibility. Using an exemplar case of RiderLog, a crowdsourced GPS tracked bicycling data, this paper describes and critiques the processes developed to transform this urban big data. Furthermore, the paper outlines the important tasks of formatting, cleaning, validating, anonymizing and publishing this data for the capital cities of each state and territory in Australia. More broadly, this research contributes to the foundational underpinnings of how to process and make available crowdsourced data for research and real world urban planning purposes.
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Keywords:
crowdsourced data; smartphone; bicycle; RiderLog; big data
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Leao, S.Z.; Lieske, S.N.; Conrow, L.; Doig, J.; Mann, V.; Pettit, C.J. Building a National-Longitudinal Geospatial Bicycling Data Collection from Crowdsourcing. Urban Sci. 2017, 1, 23.
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