Inferring the scale of OpenStreetMap features

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue 9783319142791, 2015, Pages 81-99

  Touya, Guillaume ^a   Reimer, Andreas ^b  

^a IGN COGIT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data quality; Generalization; Level of detail; OpenStreetMap; Scale

Indexed keywords

MAPPING;

DATA QUALITY; GENERALIZATION; LEVEL OF DETAIL; OPENSTREETMAP; SCALE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 85029436524     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-14280-7_5     Document Type: Article

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