OpenStreetMap is a collaborative mapping tool in which users actively include, transform and exclude geographic data. Consequently, the quality and consistency of the information made available in the tool is of constant concern. To address this issue, this work performs an analysis of some of the quality parameters within OpenStreetMap, with the data referring to the region corresponding to Br...

Complex robotic tasks require the use of knowledge that cannot be acquired with the sensor repertoire of a mobile, autonomous robot alone. For robots navigating in urban environments, geospatial open data repositories such as OpenStreetMap provide a source for such knowledge. We propose the integration of a 3D metric environment representation with the semantic knowledge from such a data base. ...

Visually impaired or blind people faced tremendous challenges daily in accessing the information while on the move or during communicating with the world around them. They had to depend on their sighted colleagues, friends, relatives, or the people on the road to help them with locating places. Our Location Based Information System is such a location based application that works as an audio roa...

Using data from OpenStreetMap and information about the public transportation the tool “osmPti2mmds” presented in this paper creates datasets that can be used to carry out multimodal analyses. As part of this process GTFS or VDV452 archive files are linked to data from OpenStreetMap in such a way that multimodal routing and reachability analyses are possible. By using this combined information ...

Geographical databases are often incomplete, especially when built up incrementally and by volunteers. A prominent example is OpenStreetMap. Often such databases contain also metadata saying that certain features are completely captured for certain areas. We show how to use such metadata to analyse in which areas queries return a complete answer. Such “completeness areas” can be computed via st...

In this paper, we summarize the practical issues met during our interaction with OpenStreetMap for the purpose of automatically generating labelled data used by data classification methods.

This talk reviews these and many more aspects of OpenStreetMap and gives an in depth feel of the past, present and future of the project. OpenStreetMap is a map of the world built by volunteers. Using a peer production model similar to wikipedia approximately 300,000 people collaboratively map features such as roads, parks and buildings and submit them to be shared. That map data is made availa...