Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] Academic Research on CrowdSourced Data

2011-10-12 Thread Keith Jenkins
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

[OSGeo-Discuss] Academic Research on CrowdSourced Data

2011-10-12 Thread Fawcett, David (MPCA)
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

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-12 Thread Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo)
- Original message - > > I wonder why would anyone answer no on this. > That is easy; sometimes use of open source is a competitive advantage; > advertise the services and results (not the tools used). That too. I can imagine for some shops that small bug squashing jobs may not be worth

Re: [OSGeo-Discuss] State of the Bounty?

2011-10-12 Thread Jody Garnett
> I wonder why would anyone answer no on this. That is easy; sometimes use of open source is a competitive advantage; advertise the services and results (not the tools used). Cheers, Jody ___ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osg