OpenStreetMap: Challenges and opportunities in machine learning and remote sensing

JE Vargas-Munoz, S Srivastava, D Tuia… - IEEE Geoscience and …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a community-based, freely available, editable map service created
as an alternative to authoritative sources. Given that it is edited mainly by volunteers with …

Volunteered geographic information research in the first decade: a narrative review of selected journal articles in GIScience

Y Yan, CC Feng, W Huang, H Fan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
More than 10 years have passed since the coining of the term volunteered geographic
information (VGI) in 2007. This article presents the results of a review of the literature …

An introduction to OpenStreetMap in Geographic Information Science: Experiences, research, and applications

J Jokar Arsanjani, A Zipf, P Mooney… - … in GIScience: Experiences …, 2015 - Springer
Recent years have seen new ways of collecting geographic information via the crowd rather
than organizations. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a prime example of this approach and has …

A web-based public participation GIS for assessing the age-friendliness of cities: A case study in Tehran, Iran

M Jelokhani-Niaraki, F Hajiloo, NN Samany - Cities, 2019 - Elsevier
Senior citizens are commonly regarded as the vulnerable class of society; requiring elderly-
friendly urban environments as well as particular municipal services to respond to their …

Efficiently informing crowds–experiments and simulations on route choice and decision making in pedestrian crowds with wheelchair users

C Feliciani, H Murakami, K Shimura… - … research part C: emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study presents the findings of an evacuation experiment involving a mixed population of
able-bodied walking pedestrians and wheelchair users. A simulation model capable of …

Assessing the cost of onshore wind development scenarios: Modelling of spatial and temporal distribution of wind power for the case of Poland

B Sliz-Szkliniarz, J Eberbach, B Hoffmann… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Wind energy plays a key role in the transition to a low-carbon European energy system. The
implementation of European and national targets for wind energy expansion is, however …

Exploring five indicators for the quality of OpenStreetMap road networks: A case study of Québec, Canada

M Moradi, S Roche, MA Mostafavi - Geomatica, 2022 - cdnsciencepub.com
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is one of the most well-known volunteered geographic information
(VGI) projects that aims to produce a free-world map. However, there are serious concerns …

Authoritative and volunteered geographical information in a developing country: A comparative case study of road datasets in Nairobi, Kenya

R Mahabir, A Stefanidis, A Croitoru, AT Crooks… - … International Journal of …, 2017 - mdpi.com
With volunteered geographic information (VGI) platforms such as OpenStreetMap (OSM)
becoming increasingly popular, we are faced with the challenge of assessing the quality of …

Are crowdsourced datasets suitable for specialized routing services? Case study of OpenStreetMap for routing of people with limited mobility

A Mobasheri, Y Sun, L Loos, AL Ali - Sustainability, 2017 - mdpi.com
Nowadays, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has increasingly gained
attractiveness to both amateur users and professionals. Using data generated from the …

OpenStreetMap data in modelling the urban energy infrastructure: a first assessment and analysis

A Alhamwi, W Medjroubi, T Vogt, C Agert - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Energizing the future energy systems requires comprehensive understanding at the urban
level. However, many uncertainties hinder such goals, leastwise the data and tools used in …