Quality assessment of online street and rooftop geocoding services

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 301-318

  Roongpiboonsopit, Duangduen ^a   Karimi, Hassan A ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Location based services; Online geocoding services; Quality of services; Rooftop geocoding; Street geocoding

Indexed keywords

GEO CODING; GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS; HYBRID APPROACH; HYBRID SERVICES; INTERNET BASED; LOCATION-BASED SERVICES; MAPQUEST; MICROSOFT; ONLINE GEOCODING SERVICES; PENNSYLVANIA; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE DATABASE; SMALL SAMPLE SIZE;

QUALITY CONTROL;

INTERNET;

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATABASE; INTERNET; MAPPING METHOD; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; ROOF;

EID: 78751534764     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1559/152304010793454318     Document Type: Article

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