A FOSS4G-based procedure to compare OpenStreetMap and authoritative road network datasets
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OpenStreetMap (OSM), the most popular VGI crowdsourcing project, is an excellent example of an open-license spatial database. But what is the quality of OSM road network datasets compared to authoritative counterparts? Several comparisons of this kind are detailed in literature but these cannot be easily adapted to other scenarios. Developing a generic automated procedure is very challenging. This paper proposes a FOSS4G-based procedure for automated quality comparison of OSM and any authoritative road network datasets. We detail work-in-progress which has great potential. Our procedure is currently implemented into a GRASS command with future plans to extend this to a QGIS plugin and a FOSS4G-based WPS.
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