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Exploiting the Potential of VGI Metadata to Develop A Data-Driven Framework for Predicting User’s Proficiency in OpenStreetMap Context [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2019 Volunteered geographic information (VGI) encourages citizens to contribute geographic data voluntarily that helps to enhance geospatial databases. VGI’s significant limitations are trustworthiness and reliability concerning data quality due to the ...
Gangothri Rajaram, KR Manjula
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Testing the positional accuracy of OpenStreetMap data for mapping applications
Geodesy and Cartography, 2016 OpenStreetMap, a web mapping platform, is the most popular web map source for use in locationbased services with specific emphasis on pedestrian navigation, tourist guide applications, and other location-based search applications.
Khalid l. A. El-Ashmawy
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Metamorphic testing of OpenStreetMap [PDF]
Information and Software Technology, 2021 OpenStreetMap represents a collaborative effort of many different and unrelated users to create a free map of the world. Although contributors follow some general guidelines, unsupervised additions are prone to include erroneous information. Unfortunately, it is impossible to automatically detect most of these issues because there does not exist an ...
Jesús M. Almendros-Jiménez +3 more
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Analysing the spatial pattern of road networks in Kimberley, South Africa
Town and Regional Planning, 2023 The increasing burden on South African road networks necessitates sustainable solutions that conclude their spatial configuration and arrangement. A deeper understanding of the existing road network’s spatial organisation is, therefore, required.
Tabaro Kabanda
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Diagnosing the performance of human mobility models at small spatial scales using volunteered geographical information [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2019 Accurate modelling of local population movement patterns is a core, contemporary concern for urban policymakers, affecting both the short-term deployment of public transport resources and the longer-term planning of transport infrastructure.
Chico Q. Camargo +2 more
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Big Earth Data, 2021 In the Big Data era, Earth observation is becoming a complex process integrating physical and social sectors. This study presents an approach to generating a 100 m population grid in the Contiguous United States (CONUS) by disaggregating the US census ...
Xiao Huang +3 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Traditionally, the standards of spatial modeling are oriented to represent the quantitative information of space. However, in recent years an increasingly common challenge is appearing: flexibly and appropriately integrating quantitative information that
Rubén Cantarero Navarro +6 more
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Assessing OSM building completeness for almost 13,000 cities globally
International Journal of Digital Earth, 2022 OpenStreetMap (OSM) is an essential source for acquiring building data, although such data may suffer from quality issues. Many studies have focused on assessing OSM building data quality but few have been carried out on a global scale.
Qi Zhou +3 more
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Development of a land use regression model for black carbon using mobile monitoring data and its application to pollution-avoiding routing [PDF]
, 2020 Black carbon is often used as an indicator for combustion-related air pollution. In urban environments, on-road black carbon concentrations have a large spatial variability, suggesting that the personal exposure of a cyclist to black carbon can heavily ...
De Baets, Bernard +4 more
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Location-based games have become popular in recent years, with Pokémon Go and Ingress being two very prominent examples. Some location-based games, known as Serious Games, go beyond entertainment and serve additional purposes such as data collection.
Rene Westerholt +2 more
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