Ten Years of OpenStreetMap Project: Have We Addressed Data Quality Appropriately? – Review Paper

It has increasingly been recognised that the future developments in geospatial data handling will centre on geospatial data on the web: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). The evaluation of VGI data quality, including positional and shape similarity, has become a recurrent subject in the scien...

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Published inJournal of Engineering Vol. 21; no. 4
Main Author Maythm al-bakri, Instructor
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Baghdad 01.12.2015
Subjects
OpenStreetMap; VGI; spatial data quality; geometrical similarity; positional accuracy
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ISSN1726-4073
2520-3339

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Summary:It has increasingly been recognised that the future developments in geospatial data handling will centre on geospatial data on the web: Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). The evaluation of VGI data quality, including positional and shape similarity, has become a recurrent subject in the scientific literature in the last ten years. The OpenStreetMap (OSM) project is the most popular one of the leading platforms of VGI datasets. It is an online geospatial database to produce and supply free editable geospatial datasets for a worldwide. The goal of this paper is to present a comprehensive overview of the quality assurance of OSM data. In addition, the credibility of open source geospatial data is discussed, highlighting the difficulties and challenges of VGI data quality assessment. The conclusion is that for OSM dataset, it is quite difficult to control its quality. It therefore makes sense to use OSM data for applications do not need high quality spatial datasets.
ISSN:1726-4073
2520-3339