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Highlighting Current Trends in Volunteered Geographic Information [PDF]
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2017 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a growing area of research. This Special Issue aims to capture the main trends in VGI research based on 16 original papers, and distinguishes between two main areas, i.e., those that deal with the ...
David Jonietz +3 more
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OpenStreetMap – building data completeness visualization in terms of “Fitness for purpose” [PDF]
Advances in Geodesy and Geoinformation, 2023 The purpose of this article was to provide the user with information about the number of buildings in the analyzed OpenStreetMap (OSM) dataset in the form of data completeness indicators, namely the standard OSM building areal completeness index (C Index)
Sylwia Borkowska +2 more
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A Risk-Based Approach for Enhancing the Fitness of Use of VGI
IEEE Access, 2022 Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) phenomena offer an alternative or supplement to the authoritative mechanism of geospatial data acquisition. It allows people without professional geospatial skills or knowledge to participate in the geospatial ...
Tarek Sboui, Saida Aissi
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2021 One of the most important challenges of volunteered geographic information (VGI) is the quality assessment. Existing methods of VGI quality assessment, either assess the quality by comparing a reference map with the VGI map or deriving the quality from ...
Sepehr Honarparvar +3 more
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Geo-spatial Information Science, 2023 Geographical studies of outdoor activities have increased in recent years with the rise in popularity of these activities worldwide, including in Japan. Volunteered geographic information (VGI) is a key tool for organizing outdoor activities as it offers
Jun Yamashita +3 more
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Big Earth Data, 2021 The applications of 3D building models are limited as producing them requires massive labor and time costs as well as expensive devices. In this paper, we aim to propose a novel and web-based interactive platform, VGI3D, to overcome these challenges. The
Hongchao Fan, Gefei Kong, Chaoquan Zhang
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2020 Greece is one of the few European countries that has not yet a fully operating Cadastre at national coverage. Cadastral surveying and property registration have been completed only for about 8% of the Greek territory, which includes about 18% of the ...
George Mourafetis, Chryssy Potsiou
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Systems, 2023 The latest advances in spatial information technology have led to the emergence of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) as enrichment to existing spatial data sources.
Tarek Sboui, Saida Aissi
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Segmentation based traversing-agent approach for road width extraction from satellite images using volunteered geographic information [PDF]
Applied Computing and Informatics, 2021 We make use of the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) data to extract the total extent of the roads using remote sensing images. VGI data is often provided only as vector data represented by lines and not as full extent.
Prajowal Manandhar +2 more
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Energies, 2021 Recently, the use of electric vehicles in a power grid has been attracting attention. The success of vehicle-grid integration (VGI) requires the active participation of not only VGI service providers but also electric vehicle owners, utility companies ...
Yongma Moon +4 more
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