ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
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Articles | Volume II-2/W2
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-2-W2-169-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprsannals-II-2-W2-169-2015
19 Oct 2015
 | 19 Oct 2015

Analysing the Sustainability of Urban Development: A review on the Potential Use of Volunteered Geographic Information

N. Ibrahim, U. Ujang, G. Desa, and A. Ariffin

Keywords: Volunteered Geographic Information, VGI, Sustainable Urban Development, GIS

Abstract. The challenges of how to ensure sustainable urban development are currently one of the important agenda among governments around the world. The stakeholders require the latest and high volume of geographic information for the decision making process to efficiently respond to challenges, improve service delivery to citizens, and plan a successful future of the city. However, it is time-consuming and costly to get the available information and some of the information is not up-to-date. Recently, GeoWeb 2.0 technological advances have increased the number of volunteers from non-professional citizen to contribute to the collection, sharing, and distribution of geographic information. The information known as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has generated another approach of spatial data sources that can give up-to-date, huge volume of data, and available geographic information in a low cost for various applications. With this in mind, this paper presents a review of literature based on the potential use of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in measuring sustainability of urban development. The review highlighted that social, economic, and environment as three pertinent pillars relating to the use of VGI for measurement sustainable urban development.