Assessing the impact of demographic characteristics on spatial error in volunteered geographic information features

GeoJournal

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 587-605

  Mullen, William F ^a   Jackson, Steven P ^a   Croitoru, Arie ^a   Crooks, Andrew ^a   Stefanidis, Anthony ^a   Agouris, Peggy ^a  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Demographics; OpenStreetMap; Spatial analysis; Spatial data quality; Volunteered geographic information

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE; POPULATION STATISTICS; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

DEMOGRAPHICS; OPENSTREETMAP; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA QUALITY; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84938744299     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: 15729893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-014-9564-8     Document Type: Article

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