The following studies describes various methods of quantifying positional accuracy, completeness, etc.
Haklay (2010) How good is volunteered geographical information? A comparative study of OpenStreetMap and Ordnance Survey datasets. http://www.envplan.com/abstract.cgi?id=b35097 Cipeluch, et al. (2010) Comparison of the accuracy of OpenStreetMap for Ireland with Google Maps and Bing Maps. http://eprints.nuim.ie/2476/ See also their bibliographies for more. Cheers, Keith On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Fawcett, David (MPCA) <[email protected]> wrote: > I am working on a demo app to 'harness the crowd' to improve locational data > for features. > > My goal is to improve the data, but also to test multiple validation > algorithms. If anyone is aware of some good research on the > evaluation/validation of crowd-sourced data, I would greatly appreciate it if > you could point me to the source. > > Thanks, > > David. > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
