Fine-resolution population mapping using OpenStreetMap points-of-interest

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1940-1963

  Bakillah, Mohamed ^a,b   Liang, Steve ^b   Mobasheri, Amin ^a   Jokar Arsanjani, Jamal ^a   Zipf, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

areal interpolation; OpenStreetMap; points of interest; population estimation; volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

AREAL INTERPOLATION; BUILDING; LIDAR; MAPPING; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; URBAN POPULATION;

GERMANY; HAMBURG [GERMANY]; HAMBURG [HAMBURG (STT)];

EID: 84907591768     PISSN: 13658816     EISSN: 13623087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13658816.2014.909045     Document Type: Article

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