We provide an ontology for OpenStreetMap tags, called OSMonto, which can be used in different ways: (1) browsing of the hierarchy of tags is eased, (2) tags can be related with other ontologies, let it be tool-specific ontologies or more general ontologies like the recent Schema.org ontology supported by the dominant search engines, and (3) concepts can be unified, even if they are tagged in va...

We present a Natural Language Interface (nlmaps.cl.uni-heidelberg.de) to query OpenStreetMap. Natural language questions about geographical facts are parsed into database queries that can be executed against the OpenStreetMap (OSM) database. After parsing the question, the system provides a text-based answer as well as an interactive map with all points of interest and their relevant informatio...

The meaning and purposes of web has been changing and evolving day by day. Web 2.0 encouraged more contribution by the end users. This movement provided revolutionary methods of sharing and computing data by crowdsourcing such as OpenStreetmap, also called ”the wikification of maps” by some researchers. When crowdsourcing collects huge data with help of general public with varying level of mapp...

Based on a case study on the OpenStreetMap community, this paper provides a contextual and embodied understanding of the user-led, user-participatory and user-generated produsage phenomenon. It employs Grounded Theory, Social Worlds Theory, and qualitative methods to explore the produsage processes of OpenStreetMap making, and how knowledge artefacts such as maps can be collectively and collabo...

Spatial data mining is the process to mine data from spatial data sets like OpenStreetMap or any kind of geographic data. With the emergence of time, Geographic Information get more value from the researchers. This is used to mine useful data and features based on different locations. In related work, existing techniques are based on Dijkstras algorithm and Euclidean distance for spatial data m...

OpenStreetMap represents a collaborative effort of many different and unrelated users to create free map the world. Although contributors follow some general guidelines, unsupervised additions are prone include erroneous information. Unfortunately, it is impossible automatically detect most these issues because there does not exist an oracle evaluate whether information correct or not. Metamorp...