Towards quality metrics for OpenStreetMap

GIS: Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Advances in Geographic Information Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 514-517

  Mooney, Peter ^a   Corcoran, Padraig ^a   Winstanley, Adam C ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

OpenStreetMap; Quality of spatial data; Shape representation

Indexed keywords

EUROPEAN COUNTRIES; IRELAND; OPENSTREETMAP; QUALITY METRICS; SHAPE REPRESENTATION; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL DATA QUALITY; TRUTH DATA; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 78650618846     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1869790.1869875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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