This volume has presented “OpenStreetMap in GIScience: experiences, research and applications” with a collection of experiences and research carried out with OpenStreetMap as the central and core theme. The volume has sought to build a firm foundation to highlight research work focused on OpenStreetMap. This was one of our original goals when we set out at the beginning of the editorial process...

With an increasing number of applications building on OpenStreetMap, data quality is becoming a pressing issue. Data provenance gives useful hints that facilitate data quality assessments based on the features’ persistence. However, this requires a detailed analysis of the editing history and the corresponding contributors. In order to make this provenance information explicit, we introduce a p...

The emergence and ubiquitary availability of geotechnologies yield a rapid increase of user generated geographical data, utilized for mapping, modeling etc. On the example of a well mapped German city this paper analyzes the positional accuracy of OpenStreetMap and TomTom data by means of a statistical comparative approach using official survey data as the reference dataset. The results show th...

Within the framework of Web Mapping 2.0 applications, the most striking example of a geographical application is the OpenStreetMap project. OpenStreetMap aims to create a free digital map of the world and is implemented through the engagement of participants in a mode similar to software development in Open Source projects. The information is collected by many participants, collated on a centra...

Accurate maps of surface water are essential for many environmental applications. Surface water maps can be generated by combining measurements from multiple sources. Precise estimation of surface water using satellite imagery remains a challenging task due to the sensor limitations, complex land cover, topography, and atmospheric conditions. As a complementary dataset, in the case of hilly lan...

OpenStreetMap is one of the best examples of Volunteered Geographic Information. Its success relies on the ease of use and the freedom it provides. Users are supposed to geolocate their Points Of Interest and annotate them with a tag. There is no certain vocabulary or ontology of the tags that users have to commit to. The whole tagging process is done in a bottom-up manner in which the communit...

Im Rahmen einer Machbarkeitsstudie wurde das Potenzial zur stofflichen Verwertung von Windelabfällen, die in Haushalten und Pflegeheimen anfallen, aufgezeigt und ein Gesamtkonzept für die Entsorgungslogistik und Verwertung vorgelegt. Verschiedene Varianten der Entsorgungslogistik wurden mithilfe von Netzwerkanalysen im Geografischen Informationssystem (GIS) auf der Grundlage von OpenStreetMap-D...

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 le...

Access to high quality and updated data is crucial to assess and contextualize city state of affairs. The City Data Pipeline uses diverse Open Data sources to integrate statistical information about cities. The resulting incomplete dataset is not directly usable for data analysis. We exploit data from a geographic information system, namely OpenStreetMap, to obtain new indicators for cities wit...