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This short paper starts with an introduction into participatory GIS, which means to let normal (non-professionals) participate in the creation, evaluation and usage of GI, usually in the context of geospatial decision making. A solution is needed to communicate the credibility (and therefore also usefulness) of user-created GI in these scenarios, and here we introduce Reputation of the user as such a tool. Several applications exist in which reputation can help to evalute usefulness.