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Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World pp 119–155Cite as

Integrating and Generalising Volunteered Geographic Information

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The availability of spatial data on the web has greatly increased through the availability of user-generated community data and geosensor networks. The integration of such multi-source data is providing promising opportunities, as integrated information is richer than can be found in only one data source, but also poses new challenges due to the heterogeneity of the data, the differences in quality and in respect of tag-based semantic modelling. The chapter describes approaches for the integration of official and informal sources, and discusses the impact of integrating user-generated data on automated generalisation and visualisation.

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  • Application Programming Interface
  • Volunteer Geographic Information
  • Object Symbolisation
  • Road Data
  • Output Path

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Notes

  1. 1.

    www.maps4debugs.openstreetmap.de

  2. 2.

    Note that the notion of aggregation is used here to describe the grouping of similar instances of the same feature class to a new, combined representative object.

  3. 3.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries

  4. 4.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Maps

  5. 5.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Renderers_feature_list

  6. 6.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Main_Page

  7. 7.

    http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page

  8. 8.

    See Footnote 7

  9. 9.

    http://munin.openstreetmap.org/openstreetmap/yevaud.openstreetmap/renderd_queue.html

  10. 10.

    https://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/178/how-often-does-the-main-mapnik-map-get-updated

  11. 11.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features

  12. 12.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features

  13. 13.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:medical%3Daed

  14. 14.

    http://www.geofabrik.de/en/index.html

  15. 15.

    http://blog.geofabrik.de/de/?p=75

  16. 16.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API

  17. 17.

    http://overpass-api.de/

  18. 18.

    http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/QuadTiles

  19. 19.

    http://mapnik.org/

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    Jamal Jokar Arsanjani

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Sester, M., Jokar Arsanjani, J., Klammer, R., Burghardt, D., Haunert, JH. (2014). Integrating and Generalising Volunteered Geographic Information. In: Burghardt, D., Duchêne, C., Mackaness, W. (eds) Abstracting Geographic Information in a Data Rich World. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-00203-3_5

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