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OpenStreetMap: state of the art technologies and challenges
1. OpenStreetMap: state of the art
technologies and challenges
Maurizio Napolitano
Trento, 26 June 2013
SmartCampus – Smart City Seminar Series:
http://smartcampus.trentorise.eu/
2. The project
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OpenStreetMap is a
free editable map
of the whole
planet.
It is made by people
like you.
http://www.openstreetmap.org
12. The resources of OpenStreetMap
tools
(by a presentation of Niccolo Rigacci – http://www.rigacci.org - CC-BY-SA-NC)
13. Research question: users
picture from: http://researchersnight09.fbk.eu/
Main field:
Volunteered geographic information
Goodchild, M.F. (2007). "Citizens as sensors: the world of volunteered geography". GeoJournal 69 (4): 211–221. :10.1007/s10708-007-9111-ydoi
http://www.slideshare.net/mukih/state-of-the-map-eu-openstreetmap-and-giscience-research
With OSM
Working close to OSM community
to identify research needs and follow them
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research/Ideas
About OSM
Learning about OSM, and the community as part of VGI.
Comparing it to other projects
Using OSM
Using the dataset to create new applications
and explore scientific issues
18. Map Features
(tags)
node way relation
source: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:public_transport
More info:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features
19. Research question: semantic?
picture from: http://researchersnight09.fbk.eu/
Using OSM
Using the dataset to create new applications
and explore scientific issues
Ballatore, A., Bertolotto, M., & Wilson, D. C. (2012).
Geographic knowledge extraction and semantic similarity in OpenStreetMap.
Knowledge and Information Systems, 1-21.