Recent developments and future trends in volunteered geographic information research: The case of OpenStreetMap

P Neis, D Zielstra - Future internet, 2014 - mdpi.com
User-generated content (UGC) platforms on the Internet have experienced a steep increase
in data contributions in recent years. The ubiquitous usage of location-enabled devices …

Measuring completeness of building footprints in OpenStreetMap over space and time

R Hecht, C Kunze, S Hahmann - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2013 - mdpi.com
Due to financial or administrative constraints, access to official spatial base data is currently
limited to a small subset of all potential users in the field of spatial planning and research …

Progress and challenges on entity alignment of geographic knowledge bases

K Sun, Y Zhu, J Song - ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 - mdpi.com
Geographic knowledge bases (GKBs) with multiple sources and forms are of obvious
heterogeneity, which hinders the integration of geographic knowledge. Entity alignment …

Towards an automated comparison of OpenStreetMap with authoritative road datasets

MA Brovelli, M Minghini, M Molinari… - Transactions in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an extraordinarily large and diverse spatial database of the world.
Road networks are amongst the most frequently occurring spatial content within the OSM …

A comprehensive quality assessment framework for linear features from Volunteered Geographic Information

H Wu, A Lin, KC Clarke, W Shi… - International Journal …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The majority of spatial data provided as Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) are roads
and other linear map features. Such data have been widely used in routing and navigation …

Harnessing the power of volunteers, the internet and Google Earth to collect and validate global spatial information using Geo-Wiki

L See, S Fritz, C Perger, C Schill, I McCallum… - … Forecasting and Social …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Information about land cover and land use is needed for a wide range of
applications such as nature protection and biodiversity, forest and water management …

[HTML][HTML] Analytical estimation of map readability

L Harrie, H Stigmar, M Djordjevic - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2015 - mdpi.com
Readability is a major issue with all maps. In this study, we evaluated whether we can
predict map readability using analytical measures, both single measures and composites of …

Using latent semantic analysis to identify research trends in openstreetmap

SS Sehra, J Singh, HS Rai - ISPRS International Journal of Geo …, 2017 - mdpi.com
OpenStreetMap (OSM), based on collaborative mapping, has become a subject of great
interest to the academic community, resulting in a considerable body of literature produced …

An integrated approach for developing an urban livability composite index—A cities' ranking road map to achieve urban sustainability

U Saeed, SR Ahmad, G Mohey-ud-din, HJ Butt… - Sustainability, 2022 - mdpi.com
Livability is a concept that assesses the quality of life and relative performance of different
regions and communities, based on various qualitative and quantitative factors. The …

Assessing the impact of demographic characteristics on spatial error in volunteered geographic information features

WF Mullen, SP Jackson, A Croitoru, A Crooks… - GeoJournal, 2015 - Springer
The proliferation of volunteered geographic information (VGI), such as OpenStreetMap
(OSM) enabled by technological advancements, has led to large volumes of user-generated …