Community Protection with Spatial Web Services and New Spatial Objects

Abstract

Today, societies experience different crises such as natural, political, cultural, religious, economical, and so on. The lack of understanding and timely identification of these crises may lead to the prosperity of national or international societies. On the other hand, most of the crises due to their particular characteristics cannot be resolved solely by government resources and actions. On the other side, the people have certain potential that can be cured by their effective utilization, a significant part of the consequences of the crisis. In this paper, the aim is to use a spatial crowdsourcing service in the context of spatial information systems to use the potential effective members of community to solve various classes of problems. Also, based on the data obtained from such services, there are some specific management tools and methods that can be used to monitor the balance of society in different cultural, religious, and economic sectors. In the following, a graph network is created upon the data obtained from this service. Then, based on this graph, a new definition of geographical phenomena is given. In this way, some kind of new geographical phenomena is introduced which is based on positive or negative spatial operations. Also, some existing models for processing social graphs are somehow tailored to the crowdsourcing services. The main purpose of these modifications is to apply spatial corrections to social graph models by using spatial information systems.