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Advancements in technology have led to an increase in the number of Volunteer Geographic Information (VGI) applications, and new smartphone functionalities have made collecting VGI data easier. However, getting volunteers to install and use new VGI applications can be challenging. This article introduces a possible solution by using existing applications, that people use on a daily basis, for VGI data collection. Accordingly, a prototype of a Telegram chatbot is developed to collect mountain images from volunteers, while also providing them with information such as weather conditions and avalanche risk in a given location. The article concludes that using existing platforms like Telegram has benefits, but it is important to consider the specific goals, participants’ needs, and interface of a project, and strikes a balance between creating a new application and using existing ones.
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The CIME project is supported by the European cross- border cooperation program Interreg France-Switzerland 2014-2020 and has been awarded a European grant (European Regional Development Fund).
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Lotfian, M., Ingensand, J., Gressin, A., Claramunt, C. (2023). CIMEMountainBot: A Telegram Bot to Collect Mountain Images and to Communicate Information with Mountain Guides. In: Mostafavi, M.A., Del Mondo, G. (eds) Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems. W2GIS 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13912. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34612-5_9
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