
Lars Harrie
Professor

Matching authority and VGI road networks using an extended node-based matching algorithm
Författare
Summary, in English
The amount of volunteered geographic information (VGI) has increased over the past decade, and several studies have been conducted to evaluate the quality of VGI data. In this study, we evaluate the completeness of the road network in the VGI data set OpenStreetMap (OSM). The evaluation is based on an accurate and efficient network-matching algorithm. The study begins with a comparison of the two main strategies for network matching: segment-based and node-based matching. The comparison shows that the result quality is comparable for the two strategies, but the node-based result is considerably more computationally efficient. Therefore, we improve the accuracy of node-based algorithm by handling topological relationships and detecting patterns of complicated network components. Finally, we conduct a case study on the extended node-based algorithm in which we match OSM to the Swedish National Road Database (NVDB) in Scania, Sweden. The case study reveals that OSM has a completeness of 87% in the urban areas and 69% in the rural areas of Scania. The accuracy of the matching process is approximately 95%. The conclusion is that the extended node-based algorithm is sufficiently accurate and efficient for conducting surveys of the quality of OSM and other VGI road data sets in large geographic regions.
Avdelning/ar
- Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskap
- Centrum för geografiska informationssystem (GIS-centrum)
Publiceringsår
2015-07-03
Språk
Engelska
Sidor
65-80
Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie
Geo-Spatial Information Science
Volym
18
Issue
2-3
Dokumenttyp
Artikel i tidskrift
Förlag
Taylor & Francis
Ämne
- Physical Geography
- Human Geography
Nyckelord
- geographic data
- node-based matching
- OpenStreetMap (OSM)
- pattern detection
- segment-based matching
- Swedish National Road Database (NVDB)
- volunteered geographic information (VGI)
Aktiv
Published
Projekt
- Modeling and improving Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI)
ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt
- ISSN: 1009-5020