1. Collection and integration of local knowledge and experience through a collective spatial analysis
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Josep María Monguet-Fierro, Alex Fernando Jiménez-Vélez, Juan Daniel Castillo-Rosas, María Amparo Núñez-Andrés, José José Diez-Rodríguez, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Expressió Gràfica a l'Enginyeria, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Civil i Ambiental, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. EGEO - Enginyeria Geomàtica, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. LAM - Laboratori d'Aplicacions Multimèdia i TIC, Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas ESPE, and Secretaría de la Defensa Nacional. Departamento Cartográfico
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Enginyeria civil::Geomàtica::Cartografia [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,SIGIC ,Knowledge management ,SDSS ,Public participation GIS ,Process (engineering) ,020209 energy ,Anàlisi espacial (Estadística) ,Intel·ligència col·lectiva ,Geography, Planning and Development ,Swarm intelligence ,lcsh:G1-922 ,02 engineering and technology ,Social group ,Collective Spatial Analysis ,0502 economics and business ,Decisió, Presa de ,0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering ,Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Computers in Earth Sciences ,Empirical evidence ,PGIS ,business.industry ,05 social sciences ,spatial decision-making ,Geographic information systems ,Geography ,Economia i organització d'empreses::Política industrial i tecnologia [Àrees temàtiques de la UPC] ,PPGIS ,Early results ,Asynchronous communication ,Spatial decision making ,Spatial analysis (Statistics) ,geo-consensus ,Convergence (relationship) ,business ,050203 business & management ,lcsh:Geography (General) ,Decision-making ,Sistemes d'informació geogràfica -- Aplicacions - Abstract
This article discusses the convenience of adopting an approach of Collective Spatial Analysis in the P/PGIS processes, with the aim of improving the collection and integration of knowledge and local expertise in decision-making, mainly in the fields of planning and adopting territorial policies. Based on empirical evidence, as a result of the review of scientific articles from the Web of Science database, in which it is displayed how the knowledge and experience of people involved in decision-making supported by P/PGIS are collected and used, a prototype of a WEB-GSDSS application has been developed. This prototype allows a group of people to participate anonymously, in an asynchronous and distributed way, in a decision-making process to locate goods, services, or events through the convergence of their views. Via this application, two case studies for planning services in districts of Ecuador and Italy were carried out. Early results suggest that in P/PGIS local and external actors contribute their knowledge and experience to generate information that afterwards is integrated and analysed in the decision-making process. On the other hand, in a Collective Spatial Analysis, these actors analyse and generate information in conjunction with their knowledge and experience during the process of decision-making. We conclude that, although the Collective Spatial Analysis approach presented is in a subjective and initial stage, it does drive improvements in the collection and integration of knowledge and local experience, foremost among them is an interdisciplinary geo-consensus