A Comprehensive Framework for Intrinsic OpenStreetMap Quality Analysis

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 877-895

  Barron, Christopher ^a   Neis, Pascal ^a   Zipf, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE SOURCE; DATA QUALITY; DATA SET; GEO-DATA; INFORMATION PROJECTS; PROCUREMENT COSTS; QUALITY ASSESSMENT; REFERENCE DATA; SCIENTIFIC STUDIES; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE;

EID: 84919356325     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tgis.12073     Document Type: Article

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