Trust as a proxy measure for the quality of volunteered geographic information in the case of openstreetmap

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 2013-January, Issue , 2013, Pages 21-37

  Keßler, Carsten ^a   De Groot, René Theodore Anton ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SCIENCE;

ADDRESS INFORMATIONS; GROUND-TRUTH DATASET; INFORMATION COMPLETENESS; RECENT RESEARCHES; THEMATIC ACCURACIES; TOPOLOGICAL CONSISTENCY; TRUST ASSESSMENTS; VOLUNTEERED GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84939632422     PISSN: 18632351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-00615-4_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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