Contact Details

I can be physically found at two locations (outlined below) and almost always available on my NUIM email peter [dot] mooney [at] nuim [dot] ie

Environmental Research Center,
Environmental Protection Agency,
McCumiskey House, Richview,
Clonskeagh, Dublin 14.
Ireland.
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Telephone: +353 1 268 0100
Email: p [dot] mooney [at] epa [dot] ie 		Geotechnologies Research Group,
Department of Computer Science,
National University of Ireland Maynooth (NUIM)
Maynooth, Co. Kildare.
Ireland.
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Telephone: +353 1 268 0100
Email: peter [dot] mooney [at] nuim [dot] ie

About me!

I am a Research Fellow at the Department of Computer Science, NUI Maynooth (CS-NUIM) Ireland and at the Irish Environmental Protection Agency whom I am funded by (grant number 2008-FS-DM-14-S4). I obtained my PhD Computer Science in 2004. The topic of my PhD research was the use of Evolutionary Algorithms for multicriteria path optimisation problems. I also hold a BSc in Computer Science and Mathematical Physics.

At CS-NUIM I am involved in a very active research group on Geotechnologies lead by Dr. Adam Winstanley. Our research group is integrated into the Science Foundation Ireland's STRAT-AG funding (07/SRC/I1168) at the National Center for Geocomputation (NCG) at NUI Maynooth where Dr. Winstanley is a Co-PI.

I am currently the principal supervisor for two PhD students in Computer Science: Blazej Ciepluch (funded by the Environmental Protection Agency Ireland) and Fangli Ying (funded by the Irish Universities Association and China Scholarship Council). I also assist with the supervision of another PhD student Ricky Jacob (funded by STRAT-AG).

At the Environmental Research Centre (ERC) in the Irish Environmental Protection Agency Ireland I work as a Research Specialist in Data Management and Open Data. I developed the Secure Archive For Environmental Research Data (SAFER-Data) for the EPA as a web-based tool to allow EPA funded researchers and partner institutions to make the digital outputs of their environmental research freely and publicly available.

I am collaborating with a number of leading international researchers. My principal collaboration is with Dr. Padraig Corcoran of the School of Informatics in University College Dublin Ireland who is a PI on an IRCSET funded research project. Others whom I am in active collaboration include: Prof. Lei Yan of Peking University, Beijing, China; Dr. Jeremy Morely and Prof. Mike Jackson at Centre for Geospatial Analysis in University of Nottingham UK, Dr. Afra Mashhadi from University College London, and Prof. Giles Foody, Department of Geography at University of Nottingham, UK. I am part of a new 2012-2016 ICT COST Action (TD 1202) called Mapping and the Citizen Sensor involving 7 EU partners.

I am very interested in building collaborative working links with other researchers and scientists with similiar interests to my work and that of the research group here at the Computer Science Department at NUIM. This collaboration could take many different forms including: invited presentations, development of research ideas and collaborative work towards production of conference or journal papers, development of a networked research team with the goal of applying for joint funding such as that from FP7 ICT , FP7 Environment, COST Actions, or the European Research Council (ERC). Please drop me an email or telephone me at the contact details above and we can investigate if there are common research interests and a possibility for future collaboration.

I use Linux operating systems - mostly Ubuntu. I use Libre Office as my office suite and have a very low tolerance for MS Word documents. Consequently, I try to typset most of my academic papers using LaTeX. I program mostly in Python, PHP, and in previous years Java.

Research Interests

As reflected in my publications listing below I have a wide range of research interests. This results from the cross-domain nature of my work with the Environmental Protection Agency and at the Department of Computer Science. The list below briefly summarises these research interests:

  • Quality and Usability of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in mainstream GIS analysis and web-based GIS. Specific emphasis here on OpenStreetMap
  • User contribution behaviour to VGI data resources with links to Citizen Science. Why do people collect spatial data and distribute it for free? What are the motivations? What makes a good citizen scientist or VGI contributor?
  • Using Free and Open Source (GIS) Tools in developing systems which promote the wider availabilty of publicly available environmental information
  • Location-based Service applications - including pedestrian navigation, way finding, etc.
  • Pattern recognition and shape complexity analysis of vector-based spatial data
  • Investigation of the use of Web 2.0 tools such as Twitter, Facebook, OpenStreetMap, Flickr, etc as tools for delivering environmental information to the general public

Publications List

Journal Publications

  • Mooney, P. and, Corcoran, P Has OpenStreetMap a role in Digital Earth Applications?. International Journal of Digital Earth 2013; (Accepted February 2013). You can download a copy of this paper (Warning: This is pre-final version so a few typos etc remain)
  • Corcoran, P, Mooney, P. , Bertolotto, M. Analysing the growth of OpenStreetMap networks, Spatial Statistics, Available online from 4 February 2013, ISSN 2211-6753, DOI: 10.1016/j.spasta.2013.01.002.
  • Corcoran, P.,Mooney, P. and, Bertolotto M. Spatial Relations Using High Level Concepts. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information. 2012; 1(3):333-350. This paper is available under a fully open access license.
  • Jacob, R. and Winstanley, A. and Togher, N. and Roche, R. and Mooney, P.. Pedestrian navigation using the sense of touch. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 36(6): 513-525 (2012) Download on Science Direct
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P.. Characterising the Metric and Topological Evolution of OpenStreetMap Network Representations. European Physical Journal (link) Special Topics (Special issue: Spatially Embedded Complex Networks), vol. 215(1), pp. 109-122, 2013. Download Paper
  • Bashir Shalaik, Ricky Jacob, Peter Mooney and Adam C Winstanley Using haptics as an alternative to visual map interfaces for public transport information systems Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Communication: Special Issue on Visual Interfaces and User Experience: new approaches Publishing Date: 5/11/2012. PDF is available for download as a pre-print or directly from the UBICC.org website.
  • Napolitano, M. and Mooney, P. MVP OSM: A Tool to identify Areas of High Quality Contributor Activity in OpenStreetMap. The Bulletin of the Society of Cartographers. Summer 2012. A PDF pre-print is available for download. Source code for MVP OSM is available for download from GitHub at MVP-OSM repo
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Characteristics of Heavily Edited Objects in OpenStreetMap. Future Internet March 2012, 4(1), 285-305; doi:10.3390/fi4010285. PDF available for download under open access license
  • Mooney, P., Corcoran, P. and Ciepluch, B. The Potential for using Volunteered Geographic Information in Pervasive Health Computing Applications. Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing (link) - special issue on Pervasive Health Computing (Accepted Feb. 2012). A PDF Pre-print is available for download
  • Corcoran, P., Mooney, P. and Bertolotto, M. Utilizing Geometric Coherence in the Computation of Map Transformations. Computers & Geosciences (Accepted November 2011). Journal Link. A pre-print is available from ScienceDirect at Pre-print PDF
  • Huabo Sun, Lei Yan, Mooney, P and Rui Liang A new method for moving object detection using variable resolution bionic compound eyes. International Journal of the Physical Sciences Vol. 6 Issue 24 pp. 5618 - 5622. October 2011 Download PDF
  • Jilani, M., Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. Lampposts as Landmarks for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping. Advanced Materials Research Journal vol. 403-408, pp. 823-829, November 2011. Download Available
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. The Annotation Process in OpenStreetMap. Transactions in GIS (Accepted Oct. 2011). Download pre-print PDF
  • Corcoran, Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A. C. Planar and Non-Planar Topologically Consistent Vector Map Simplification International Journal of Geographical Information Science, vol. 25(10), pp. 1659-1680, 2011.
  • Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Shalaik, B. and Winstanley, AC. HapticTransit: Tactile feedback to notify public transport users International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communication (IJDIWC) 1(3): 238-252, The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications, 2011. Download PDF
  • Corcoran, P. , Winstanley, A. C., Mooney, P. and Middleton, R. Background Foreground Segmentation for SLAM. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 12(4), pp. 1177-1183. DECEMBER 2011 Download PDF (IEEE Xplore).
  • Huabo Sun, Haimeng Zhao, Peter Mooney,, Hongying Zhao, Daping Liu, Lei Yan, A Novel System for Moving Object Detection Using Bionic Compound Eyes, Journal of Bionic Engineering, Volume 8, Issue 3, September 2011, Pages 313-322 Download PDF (ScienceDirect)
  • Corcoran, P., Winstanley, A. C. and Mooney, P. Complementary Texture and Intensity Gradient Estimation and Fusion for Watershed Segmentation. Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 22(6), pp. 1027-1045, 2011.
  • Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C Haptic-GIS: Exploring the possibilities Presented at ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 Appears in The SIGSPATIAL Special Volume 2, Number 3, November 2010.
  • Ying, F. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C A model for progressive transmission of spatial data based on shape complexity ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010:: Appears in The SIGSPATIAL Special Volume 2, Number 3, November 2010. Note: Awarded Best runner up poster presentation at the ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010 conference.
  • Corcoran, P.,Mooney, P., Winstanley, A. C. and Tilton, J. Self-Intersecting Polygons Resulting From Contour Evolution for Shape Similarity. International Journal of Shape Modeling, Vol. 15(1-2), pp. 93-109, 2010. Download PDF.
  • Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C and Mooney, P. Segmentation performance evaluation for object-based remotely sensed image analysis. International Journal of Remote Sensing Vol. 31(3), pp. 617-645, 2010.
  • Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. and Jacob, R. and Winstanley, A.C. Using Openstreetmap to deliver location-based environmental information in Ireland. SIGSPATIAL Special 1, 3 (2009), 17-22.
  • Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C: Evolutionary algorithm for multicriteria path optimization problems International Journal of Geographical Information Science Vol. 20, No. 4, April 2006
  • Donnelly, A., Jennings, E., Finnan, J., Mooney, P., O'Mahony,T, Thrivel, R and Byrne, G: Objectives, targets and indicator for use in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy & Management 8: 135-156. 2006

Academic Book Chapters

  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. The Role of Communities in Volunteered Geographic Information Projects. Accepted peer-reviewed full paper: Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Location Based Services, Munich, Germany - October 2012. Springer's Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. You can download a pre-print of this paper here or in Springer print format.
  • Corcoran, P. and Bertolotto, M. and Mooney, P. Route Sketch Maps Though Augmented Knowledge Accepted peer-reviewed full paper: Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Location Based Services, Munich, Germany - October 2012. Springer's Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Email for a copy of this paper.
  • Khatereh Polous, Peter Mooney, Jukka Krisp, and Liqui Meng. Mining Event Related Knowledge from OpenStreetMap Accepted peer-reviewed full paper: To appear: Proceedings of the 9th Symposium on Location Based Services, Munich, Germany - October 2012. Also to appear Springer's Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Email for the final pre-print.
  • Corcoran, P., Mooney, P. and Bertolotto, M. Line Simplification in the Presence of Non-Planar Topological Relationships. 15th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (Full Paper - Springer Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography), Avignon, France, April 24-27, 2012.
  • Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C What's up that street? Exploring streets using a Haptic GeoWand. ADVANCES IN LOCATION-BASED SERVICES Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2012, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg pages 91 - 103. Editors Georg Gartner and Felix Ortag. Link to Springer Paper Also Full presentation at the 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services (LBS 2011) in Vienna, 21-23 November 2011.
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Using OSM for LBS: An analysis of changes to attributes of spatial objects. ADVANCES IN LOCATION-BASED SERVICES Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2012, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg pages 165-175. Editors Georg Gartner and Felix Ortag. Link to Springer Paper Also Full presentation at the 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services (LBS 2011) in Vienna, 21-23 November 2011. Download pre-print of paper in PDF Download presentation in PDF
  • Ying, F and Mooney, P. Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C Dynamic visualization of geospatial data on small screen mobile devices. ADVANCES IN LOCATION-BASED SERVICES Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2012, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg pages 77 -87. Link to Springer Paper Also Full presentation at the 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services (LBS 2011) in Vienna, 21-23 November 2011.
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran P. Can Volunteered Geographic Information be a participant in eEnvironment and Spatial Data Infrastructures? Full paper published in the Proceedings of ISESS 2011 International Symposium on Environmental Software Systems, - Brno, Czech Republic June 2011. J. Hřebíček, G. Schimak, and R. Denzer (Eds.): ISESS 2011, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology 359, pp. 115--122. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing (2011) Download the presentation in PDF format or a pre-print of the paper
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. Topologically Consistent Selective Progressive Transmission 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (Full Paper - Springer Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography), Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 18-21, 2011.
    Appears in: Advancing Geoinformation Science for a Changing World Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography, 2011, Volume 1, Part 6, 519-538 DOI
  • Corcoran, P., Mooney, P., Bertolotto, M. and Winstanley, A.C. View- and Scale-Based Progressive Transmission of Vector Data. The 11th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications (ICCSA 2011), Santander, Spain (June 2011). (Full Paper - Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science). (Acceptance rate in all previous years <=30%). Download a pre-print of this paper
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. Convexity Grouping of Salient Contours. In Proceedings of the 8th IAPR-TC-15 Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition Munster, Germany. (May 18th - 20th 2011) - Contact me for a pre-print of this paper.
  • Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C. Representations of Environmental Data in Web-based GIS. In Nick J. Mount, G. L. Harvey, Paul Aplin, and Gary Priestnall, editors, Innovations in GIS 13: Representing, Modeling and Visualizing the Natural Environment, pages 101-116. CRC Press, 2009. Download a pre-print version of this paper

Conference Papers with Peer Review (2012)

  • Mashhadi, A. and Quattrone, G. and Capra, L. and Mooney, P. On the Sustainability of Urban Crowd-Sourcing for Maintaining Large-Scale Geospatial Databases WikiSym 2012 - The 8th International Symposium on Wikis and Open Collaboration. Linz, Austria, August 27-29th 2012. Pre-print available here
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. How social is OpenStreetMap? The 15th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science. (6 page short paper track). Pre-print available for download. Avignon, France. April 2012
  • Smith, P. and Mooney, P. OSM-CAT: A Java tool for OpenStreetMap Contributor Analysis Proceedings of 20th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Lancaster University April 2012. Preprint available for download. Accompanying website for this paper http://www.cs.nuim.ie/~pmooney/OSM-CAT
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Who are the contributors to OpenStreetMap and what do they do? Proceedings of 20th Annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) Lancaster University April 2012. Preprint available for download.

Conference Papers with Peer Review (2011)

  • Mooney, P. and Huabo Sun and Lei Yan VGI as a dynamically updating data source in Location-based Services in Urban Environments The 2nd Second International Workshop on Ubiquitous Crowdsourcing: Towards a Platform for Crowd Computing (Crowd 2011) will be at UBICOMP 2011 at Beijing, China, 18-20th September, 2011. Download a PDF Pre Print
  • Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C Guided by touch: Tactile pedestrian navigation The 1st International Workshop on Mobile Location-Based Service (MLBS 2011) will be at UBICOMP 2011 at Beijing, China, 18-20th September, 2011. Email for copy of paper.
  • Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. Quality Assessment of Volunteered Geographical Data - A case-study with OpenStreetMap using evolution of features and contribution patterns . The 8th International Symposium on Location-Based Services (LBS 2011) in Vienna, 21-23 November 2011. Download the PDF of the presentation
  • Corcoran, P., Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C. A Convexity Measure for Open and Closed Contours. The 22nd British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2011). Dundee, Scotland (August 2011). (Acceptance rate 32%).
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran P. Integrating Volunteered Geographic Information into Pervasive Health Computing Applications at PH'11 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare conference - Dublin, Ireland May 2011. Published by IEEE Xplore Download paper pre-print
  • Jacob, R., Shaliak, B., Winstanley, A.C., and Mooney, P., Haptic feedback for passengers using public transport Proceedings of The International Conference on Digital Information and Communication Technology and its Applications (DICTAP 2011), Universite de Bourgogne, France June 21-23, 2011 (H. Cherifi, J.M. Zain, and E. El-Qawasmeh (Eds.): DICTAP 2011, Part I, CCIS 166, pp. 24--32. Springer, Heidelberg (2011))
  • Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. Assessing the quality of open spatial data for mobile Location-based Services research and applications Poster Presentation (read abstract) in Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium Mobile Mapping Technology. Organised by Association of Polish Surveyors (SGP) Polish Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (PTFiT) 13-16 June 2011, Cracow Poland
  • Jacob, R. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, AC A flexible model for haptic-assisted pedestrian navigation mobile applications, In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on GeoComputation, UCL, London, England, July 2011. Download a pre-print of this paper.
  • Ying, F. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, AC Selective progressive transmission of vector data , In Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on GeoComputation, UCL, London, England, July 2011. Download a pre-print of this paper.
  • Ying, F. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C. How little is enough? Evaluation of user satisfaction with maps generated by a progressive transmission scheme for geospatial data In proceedings of the 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science, Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 18-21, 2011. Download a pre-print of this paper. Fangli Ying was a recepient of an ESRI Scholarship for AGILE 2011.
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Accessing The History of Objects in OpenStreetMap 14th AGILE International Conference on Geographic Information Science (Accepted as a Poster Presentation for the Conference Proceedings), Utrecht, The Netherlands, April 18-21, 2011. Download a pre-print of the poster paper or a slightly longer version of the pre-print
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C. and Bertolotto, M. Effective Vector Data Transmission and Visualization Using HTML5. In Proceedings of the GISRUK 2011 Portsmouth, England (April 2011) - Contact me for a pre-print of this paper.
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. Convexity Grouping of Salient Contours. In Proceedings of the 8th IAPR-TC-15 Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition Munster, Germany. (May 18th - 20th 2011) - Contact me for a pre-print of this paper.
  • Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. Building Generic Quality Indicators for OpenStreetMap (accepted as a poster presentation). In Proceedings of the GISRUK 2011 Portsmouth, England (April 2011) - Contact me for a pre-print of this paper.
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Annotating Spatial Features in OpenStreetMap. In Proceedings of the GISRUK 2011 Portsmouth, England (April 2011) - Download a pre-print of this paper.
  • Jacob, Ricky, and Mooney, P., Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C (To Appear): Integrating Haptic Feedback to Pedestrian Navigation Applications. In the Proceedings of the GISRUK 2011 Portsmouth, England (April 2011) - Contact me for a pre-print of this paper.
  • Jilani, M., Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. Lampposts as Landmarks for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping In International Conference on Control, Robotics and Cybernetics, New Delhi, India, March 19-20, 2011. (Conference proceedings by IEEE)

Conference Papers with Peer Review (2010 - 2006 )

  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C Towards Quality Metrics for OpenStreetMap ACM SIGSPATIAL GIS 2010:: In the Proceedings of the 18th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (San Jose, California, - November 2--5, 2010). Poster available for download in PDF Format. Paper available in pre-print format
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Geospatial data issues in the provision of Location-based Services Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography at South China Normal University (SCNU) on 20th - 22nd Sept, 2010, Guangzhou, China. Download PDF version of this paper
  • Ying, F. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. A shape complexity approach to simplification of geospatial data for use in Location-based Services Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography at South China Normal University (SCNU) on 20th - 22nd Sept, 2010, Guangzhou, China. Download PDF version of this paper
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P.Topological and Shape Consistent Vector Map Simplification for LBS Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on LBS & TeleCartography at South China Normal University (SCNU) on 20th - 22nd Sept, 2010, Guangzhou, China (selected as a Keynote presentation)
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley A.C. A Study of Natural Feature representation in OpenStreetMap Proceedings of GIScience 2010: Sixth international conference on Geographic Information Science Zurich, 14-17th September, 2010 Download PDF version of this paper
  • Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C and Mooney, P. and Tilton, J. Convexity Based Perceptual Organization of Image Contours. In Proceedings of The International Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP), University of Limerick, Ireland (September 2010).
  • Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. and Jacob, R. and Winstanley, A. Comparison of the accuracy of OpenStreetMap for Ireland with google maps and Bing maps. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Spatial Accuracy Assessment in Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences (2010), N. J. Tate and P. F. Fisher, Eds., University of Leicester, UK, pp. 337-340. Download PDF version of this paper
  • Zheng, J. and Chen, X. and Ciepluch, B. and Winstanley, A.C. and Mooney, P. and Jacob R. Mobile routing services for small towns using Cloudmade API and OpenStreetMap: Maynooth as an example. In Proceedings of the 14th Joint International Conference on Theory, Data Handling and Modelling in GeoSpatial Information Science (Hong Kong, China, 2010), J. Shi, Q. Zhou, Y. Leung, and C. Zhou, Eds., The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, pp. 149-154. Download PDF version of this paper
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. and and Winstanley A.C. Topological consistent generalization of OpenStreetMap. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference (London, England, 2010), M. Haklay, J. Morely, and H. Rahemtulla, Eds., University College London, pp. 149-154.
  • Ying, F. and Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley A.C. Polygon processing on openstreetmap xml data. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference (London, England, 2010), M. Haklay, J. Morely, and H. Rahemtulla, Eds., University College London, pp. 149-154. Download PDF version of this paper
  • Ciepluch, B. and Zheng, J. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley A.C. Development of a server to manage a customised local version of OpenStreetMap in Ireland. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference (London, England, 2010), M. Haklay, J. Morely, and H. Rahemtulla, Eds., University College London, pp. 149-154. Download PDF version of this paper
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A. Preliminary results of a spatial analysis of Dublin's bike rental scheme. In Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 18th Annual Conference (London, England, 2010), M. Haklay, J. Morely, and H. Rahemtulla, Eds., University College London, pp. 149-154. Download PDF version of this paper
  • Jacob, R. and Zheng, J. and Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C. Campus guidance system for international conferences based on openstreetmap. In Carswell, J. D., Fotheringham, A. S., and McArdle, G., Eds. Web and Wireless Geographical Information Systems, 9th International Symposium, W2GIS 2009, Maynooth, Ireland, December 7-8, 2009. Proceedings (2009), vol. 5886 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer. pp. 187-198.
  • Jacob, R. and Zheng, J. and Winstanley, A.C. and Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. A multi-lingual pedestrian navigation and campus guidance system using Cloudmade api. In Proceedings of 10th International Conference on GeoCom- putation (Sydney, Australia, November 2009), B. G. Lees and S. W. Laffan, Eds., University of New SouthWales, pp. 473-477.
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Winstanley, A.C. Integrating environmental research data into the shared environmental information system (SEIS). In Proceedings of the European conference of the Czech Presidency of the Council of the EU TOWARDS eENVIRONMENT. Opportunities of SEIS and SISE: Integrating En- vironmental Knowledge in Europe. Jirí Hrebícek (chief editor), Jirí Hradec, Emil Pelikán, Ondrej Mírovský, Werner Pillmann, Ivan Holoubek, Thomas Bandholtz (Eds.) Masaryk University, (Brno, Czech Republic, March 2009) pp. 237-241.
    Download a pdf-version of this paper.
  • Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C. Making Environmental Research Data Publicly Available - Experiences From Ireland. Enviro Info 2008,Lunenburg, Germany. September 2008. Download a PDF-version of this paper
  • Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C. Improving Environmental Research Data Management. Enviro Info 2007, Warsaw Poland. September 2007
  • Mooney, P. and Winstanley, A.C: Evaluating Interfaces to Publicly Available Environmental Information: Human Computer Interaction 2007: Human Interface, Part I, HCII 2007, Lecture Notes Computer Science 4557, Beijing, China. July 2007
  • Mooney, P. Web accessibility for dynamically generated websites. In Proceedings of IASTED-HCI 2005 Human-Computer Interaction (Phoenix, Arizona, USA, November 2005), M. Hamza, Ed., IASTED/ACTA Press, pp. 149-154.

Non-peer reviewed publications and invited presentations

  • Mooney, P. and Huabo Sun and Corcoran, P., and Lei Yan Citizen generated spatial data and information: Risks and Opportunities. To appear: The 2nd International Conference on Network Engineering and Computer Science (ICNECS 2011) will be held in Xi'an,Shaanxi, China 23-25 September, 2011. Paper availble as PDF print
  • Corcoran, P. and Mooney, P. The future is HTML5, The Engineers Journal (Published by Engineers Ireland), Issue - Spring 2011. Read online or download a PDF print
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Volatile Volunteered Geographic Information (VVGI) - The OpenStreetMap example (link to abstract) in Proceedings of The 1st European State of the Map Conference of the OpenStreetMap Project (SOTM-eu 2011), Vienna, Austria, 15th-17th July 2011. Download PDF of presentation slides
  • Mooney, P. To Appear: Invited presentation at Special Session on "Open Geographic Information" at the RGS-IBG International Conference 2011 - London UK (August, 2011)
  • Mooney, P. Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI): A source of spatial data for Location-based Services (LBS)? - Invited seminar to "CartoTalks" at the Institute for Geoinformation and Cartography in Vienna University of Technology (TUV) - April 15th 2011, Vienna, Austria.
  • Mooney, P. Producing and Consuming Open Data Invited presentation at the Workshop on "OpenGov: Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source" at the OSGEO GIS 2011 conference - Nottingham, UK (June, 2011). Slides available for download
  • Mooney, P., Ciepluch, B., Jacob, R., and Corcoran, P. Open Research: Working with Open Software and Open Data in Academic-based GIS Research , Presented at the 3rd Open Source GIS Conference - OSGIS 2011, Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham, England, June 2011. Download a pre-print of this paper. Slides from the presentation are available to download in PDF format.
  • Mooney, P. Invited presentation at GIS Seminar Series at Centre for Geospatial Science, University of Nottingham. "Establishing a Research Agenda with Volunteered Geographic Information and Open Data." Seminar Information CGS GIS Seminar Series 23rd Feb 2011. Slides available upon email request.
  • Mooney, P. Presentation: What does "quality" mean in Volunteered Geographic Information - the example of OpenStreetMap. Part of the WhereCamp UK 2010 - the Geo un-conference. Hosted by the University of Nottingham, England. November 19th and 20th 2010. Presentation available for download in PDF Format
  • Mooney, P. Presentation: Web 2.0 What is it? Where is it? What can it do for Environmental Scientists and Researchers. Invited Presentation on Communicating Science. EPA Annual PhD Research Conference, National Conference Center, North Quays, Dublin, Ireland. November 2010
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Ciepluch, B. and Jacob, R. Introducing OpenStreetMap to the Irish GIS Community Proceedings of GIS Ireland 2010 - The 15th GIS Ireland Conference, Dublin, Ireland. October 14th 2010
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. Can we look at your Polygons? Presentation at the OpenStreetMap State of the Map (SOTM) 2010 conference in Girona, Spain. July 2010.
  • Ciepluch, B. and Mooney, P. and Jacob R. and Corcoran, P. Using a fully open source approach to working with OpenStreetMap Presentation at the 2nd Annual Open Source GIS UK (OSGIS) Conference held at Centre for Geospatial Science University of Nottingham, UK (June 2010) Download PDF version of this paper
  • Mooney, P. and Corcoran, P. and Jacob, R. and Ciepluch, B. Citizens as sensors. How can phenology benefit from volunteered geographic information? Invited presentation at the International Conference on Phenology 2010: Climate change impacts and adaptations Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, June 2010
  • Mooney, P. Data Management: What the EPA require from your STRIVE funded project? Invited plenary presentation at the Environmental Protection Agency's Research Seminar Conference 2009. November 2009, Dublin Ireland.
  • Mooney, P. Open Access to Scientific Knowledge Invited plenary presentation for Expert Panel Discussion at the Environmental Protection Agency's Research Seminar Conference 2009. November 2009, Dublin Ireland.
  • Mooney, P. and Padraig Corcoran and Winstanley, A.C. Evaluating Twitter for use in climate change awareness campaigns. In CIICT 2009 Proceedings of the China-Ireland International Conference on Information and Communications Technologies (Maynooth, Ireland, 2009), National University of Ireland Maynooth, pp. 83--87. Download PDF version of this paper

    • Professional Activities

    Teaching

    I do some teaching in the University. This year I have delivered the "Web 2.0 - Web GIS and New Geography" module (8 hours + laboratories) to the MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing in Department of Geography, NUIM.
    I am currently supervising an MSc in Software Engineering on developing Java tools to analyse the contribution patterns in OpenStreetMap data. I am currently supervising two BSc Final Year students in Computer Science and Software Engineering on projects related to Android Application Development and Crowdsourcing of consumer information.

    Journal Reviewing

    I review academic papers for a number of leading journal titles including: International Journal in GIS, Transactions in GIS, Journal of Spatial Information Science, International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation., and Future Internet Journal.

    Conference/Meeting Related

    • I am Events Chair of the Interational Catrography Association Commission on Open Source Geospatial Technologies
    • I am the Ireland Academic Representative to EuroSDR - The European Spatial Data Research Network
    • Workshop Co-chair: Crowdsourcing in National Mapping: January 2012Workshop Homepage
    • Programme Committee Member for LBS 2011, Vienna, Austria

    Project Management

    I am on the technical steering committee of several EPA funded research projects including: (1) Teagasc (Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority) called ISIS which is developing an Irish Soil Information System. Developing 1:250,000 soil mapping for Ireland with associated Soil Information System. (2) NUI Galway called ConSensus: A cross-border household analysis of CONSumption, ENvironment and SUStainability in Ireland. I acted as a project assessment reviewer for the GEOIE (GEOmatics for Informed DEcisions) in Canada in January 2011.

    Outside Academia

    I run. (pic) I have completed 43 marathons (since 2002 and up to November 2011) with a personal best of 2 hours 35 minutes (set in Dublin, Ireland). My second best time performance is 2 hours 38 minutes (set in Cork, Ireland). I have also ran 2:39 (twice), 2:40 (eight times), and 2:41 (six times). Personal bests in other races include 15:31 (5Km), 33:10 (10KM), 26:00 (5 Miles), and 1:13:10 (1/2 marathon). I take photographs. I enjoy taking photographs with a Nikon D5000. My Flickr account will give you an overview of what I, or people using my camera, usually photograph.

    Currently I have resisted the urge to tweet, blog, or own a very expensive smartphone. You will not find me on Facebook.