Mooney, Peter and Corcoran, Padraig and Winstanley, Adam C. (2010) Towards Quality Metrics for OpenStreetMap. In: Proceedings of the 18th SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems. ACM, pp. 514-417. ISBN 978-1-4503-0428-3

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Abstract

Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is currently a “hot topic” in the GIS community. The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project is one of the most popular and well supported examples of VGI. Traditional measures of spatial data quality are often not applicable to OSM as in many cases it is not possible to access ground-truth spatial data for all regions mapped by OSM. We investigate to develop measures of quality for OSM which operate in an unsupervised manner without reference to a “trusted” source of groundtruth data. We provide results of analysis of OSM data from several European countries. The results highlight specific quality issues in OSM. Results of comparing OSM with ground-truth data for Ireland are also presented.

Item Type:	Book Section
Additional Information:	Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSi) data is supplied as part of the STRAT-AG project which is funded by a SRC grant (07/SRC/I1168) by Science Foundation Ireland under the National Development Plan. The authors gratefully acknowledge this support. Peter Mooney is funded by the Irish EPA STRIVE programme (2008-FS-DM-14-S4). Padraig Corcoran gratefully acknowledges the support of the Dept. of Comp. Sci. NUIM.
Keywords:	Quality of Spatial Data; Shape Representation; OpenStreetMap;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science
Item ID:	4932
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.1145/1869790.1869875
Depositing User:	Dr. Adam Winstanley
Date Deposited:	30 Apr 2014 15:22
Publisher:	ACM
Refereed:	Yes
Funders:	Science Foundation Ireland, Irish EPA STRIVE programme
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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