Areal delineation of home regions from contribution and editing patterns in openstreetmap

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1211-1233

  Zielstra, Dennis ^a   Hochmair, Hartwig H ^a   Neis, Pascal ^b   Tonini, Francesco ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Areal delineation; Clustering; Contribution patterns; OpenStreetMap; Volunteered geographic information (VGI)

Indexed keywords

EID: 84945950605     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22209964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijgi3041211     Document Type: Article

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