Characteristics of heavily edited objects in openstreetmap

Future Internet

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 85-305

  Mooney, Peter ^a   Corcoran, Padraig ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Collaborative editing; OpenStreetMap; Spatial data; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS;

COLLABORATIVE EDITING; HISTORICAL ANALYSIS; OPENSTREETMAP; POLYLINES; QUALITY INDICATORS; SPATIAL DATA; UNITED KINGDOM; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84875895450     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19995903     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/fi4010285     Document Type: Article

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