Abstract
High availability and diversity make Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) an interesting source of information for an increasing number of use cases. Varying quality, however, is a concern often raised when it comes to using VGI in professional applications. Recent research directs towards the estimation of VGI quality through the notion of trust as a proxy measure. In this chapter, we investigate which indicators influence trust, focusing on inherent properties that do not require any comparison with a ground truth dataset. The indicators are tested on a sample dataset extracted from OpenStreetMap. High numbers of contributors, versions and confirmations are considered as positive indicators, while corrections and revisions are treated as indicators that have a negative influence on the development of feature trustworthiness. In order to evaluate the trust measure, its results have been compared to the results of a quality measure obtained from a field survey. The quality measure is based on thematic accuracy, topological consistency, and information completeness. To address information completeness as a criterion of data quality, the importance of individual tags for a given feature type was determined based on a method adopted from information retrieval. The results of the comparison between trust assessments and quality measure show significant support for the hypothesis that featurelevel VGI data quality can be assessed using a trust model based on data provenance.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Geographic Information Science at the Heart of Europe |
Number of pages | 17 |
Volume | 2013-January |
Publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers |
Publication date | 2013 |
Pages | 21-37 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9783319006147 |
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Publication status | Published - 2013 |
Event | 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science - Leuven, Belgium Duration: 14 May 2013 → 17 May 2013 |
Conference
Conference | 16th AGILE Conference on Geographic Information Science |
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Country/Territory | Belgium |
City | Leuven |
Period | 14/05/2013 → 17/05/2013 |
Sponsor | City of Leuven, Esri, et al., Geosparc, Intergraph, Province of Vlaams-Brabant |