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Quality Assessment of the French OpenStreetMap Dataset

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ID23318237
AuthorsJean‐François Girres (0000-0002-5920-939X, Université de Perpignan, corresponding author), Guillaume Touya (0000-0001-6113-6903, Université de Perpignan)
Year2010
Volume14
Issue4
Pages435-459
Publication date2010-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTransactions in GIS (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1361-1682 • E-ISSN: 1467-9671
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-9671.2010.01203.x
OpenAlexW1581541037
LanguageEN
Citations received86
References cited13

The concept of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has recently emerged from the new Web 2.0 technologies. The OpenStreetMap project is currently the most significant example of a system based on VGI. It aims at producing free vector geographic databases using contributions from Internet users. Spatial data quality becomes a key consideration in this context of freely downloadable geographic databases. This article studies the quality of French OpenStreetMap data. It extends the work of Haklay to France, provides a larger set of spatial data quality element assessments (i.e. geometric, attribute, semantic and temporal accuracy, logical consistency, completeness, lineage, and usage), and uses different methods of quality control. The outcome of the study raises questions such as the heterogeneity of processes, scales of production, and the compliance to standardized and accepted specifications. In order to improve data quality, a balance has to be struck between the contributors' freedom and their respect of specifications. The development of appropriate solutions to provide this balance is an important research issue in the domain of user‐generated content.

Consistency (knowledge bases) · Context (archaeology) · Data consistency · Data mining · Data quality · Data science · Database · Geography · Information retrieval · Quality (philosophy) · Spatial analysis · The Internet · Volunteered Geographic Information · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Data Management and Algorithms · Engineering · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Semantic Web and Ontologies

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