Accuracy and privacy aspects in free online reverse geocoding services

Cartography and Geographic Information Science

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 140-153

  Kounadi, Ourania ^a   Lampoltshammer, Thomas J ^a,b   Leitner, Michael ^a,c   Heistracher, Thomas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b SALZBURG UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Crime data; Geoprivacy; Reverse geocoding

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CRIME DATA; GEO CODING; GEOGRAPHIC COORDINATES; GEOPRIVACY; PREDEFINED PRECISION; RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURES; WEB MAPPING SERVICES;

COMPUTER CRIME; DATABASE SYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOUSING; MAPPING;

CRIME;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CRIME; DATA QUALITY; DATABASE; GIS; MAPPING METHOD; PRECISION; WORLD WIDE WEB;

AUSTRIA; VIENNA;

EID: 84878560496     PISSN: 15230406     EISSN: 15450465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15230406.2013.777138     Document Type: Article

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