Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining

OpenStreetMap (OSM) data are widely used but their reliability is still variable. Many contributors to OSM have not been trained in geography or surveying and consequently their contributions, including geometry and attribute data inserts, deletions, and updates, can be inaccurate, incomplete, incon...

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Main Authors: Basiri, Anahid, Jackson, Mike, Amirian, Pouria, Pourabdollah, Amir, Sester, Monika, Winstanley, Adam, Moore, Terry, Zhang, Lijuan
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33132/
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author Basiri, Anahid
Jackson, Mike
Amirian, Pouria
Pourabdollah, Amir
Sester, Monika
Winstanley, Adam
Moore, Terry
Zhang, Lijuan
author_facet Basiri, Anahid
Jackson, Mike
Amirian, Pouria
Pourabdollah, Amir
Sester, Monika
Winstanley, Adam
Moore, Terry
Zhang, Lijuan
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description OpenStreetMap (OSM) data are widely used but their reliability is still variable. Many contributors to OSM have not been trained in geography or surveying and consequently their contributions, including geometry and attribute data inserts, deletions, and updates, can be inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, or vague. There are some mechanisms and applications dedicated to discovering bugs and errors in OSM data. Such systems can remove errors through user-checks and applying predefined rules but they need an extra control process to check the real-world validity of suspected errors and bugs. This paper focuses on finding bugs and errors based on patterns and rules extracted from the tracking data of users. The underlying idea is that certain characteristics of user trajectories are directly linked to the type of feature. Using such rules, some sets of potential bugs and errors can be identified and stored for further investigations
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spelling nottingham-331322020-05-04T20:04:58Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33132/ Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining Basiri, Anahid Jackson, Mike Amirian, Pouria Pourabdollah, Amir Sester, Monika Winstanley, Adam Moore, Terry Zhang, Lijuan OpenStreetMap (OSM) data are widely used but their reliability is still variable. Many contributors to OSM have not been trained in geography or surveying and consequently their contributions, including geometry and attribute data inserts, deletions, and updates, can be inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, or vague. There are some mechanisms and applications dedicated to discovering bugs and errors in OSM data. Such systems can remove errors through user-checks and applying predefined rules but they need an extra control process to check the real-world validity of suspected errors and bugs. This paper focuses on finding bugs and errors based on patterns and rules extracted from the tracking data of users. The underlying idea is that certain characteristics of user trajectories are directly linked to the type of feature. Using such rules, some sets of potential bugs and errors can be identified and stored for further investigations Taylor & Francis 2016 Article PeerReviewed Basiri, Anahid, Jackson, Mike, Amirian, Pouria, Pourabdollah, Amir, Sester, Monika, Winstanley, Adam, Moore, Terry and Zhang, Lijuan (2016) Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining. Geo-spatial Information Science, 19 (1). pp. 56-68. ISSN 1009-5020 Spatial data quality; OpenStreetMap (OSM); trajectory data mining http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10095020.2016.1151213 doi:10.1080/10095020.2016.1151213 doi:10.1080/10095020.2016.1151213
spellingShingle Spatial data quality; OpenStreetMap (OSM); trajectory data mining
Basiri, Anahid
Jackson, Mike
Amirian, Pouria
Pourabdollah, Amir
Sester, Monika
Winstanley, Adam
Moore, Terry
Zhang, Lijuan
Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining
title Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining
title_full Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining
title_fullStr Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining
title_full_unstemmed Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining
title_short Quality assessment of OpenStreetMap data using trajectory mining
title_sort quality assessment of openstreetmap data using trajectory mining
topic Spatial data quality; OpenStreetMap (OSM); trajectory data mining
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33132/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33132/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33132/