With the ubiquity of advanced web technologies and location-sensing hand held devices,
citizens regardless of their knowledge or expertise, are able to produce spatial information …

Big data has now become a strong focus of global interest that is increasingly attracting the
attention of academia, industry, government and other organizations. Big data can be …

Urban scholars have studied street networks in various ways, but there are data availability
and consistency limitations to the current urban planning/street network analysis literature …

Although accurate and comprehensive maps are indispensable for highly automated
driving, especially in complex urban scenarios, there are hardly any publications in which …

OpenStreetMap, a crowdsourced geographic database, provides the only global-level,
openly licensed source of geospatial road data, and the only national-level source in many …

Street networks may be planned according to clear organizing principles or they may evolve
organically through accretion, but their configurations and orientations help define a city's …

Guiding students step-by-step through the research process while simultaneously
introducing a range of debates, challenges and tools that feminist scholars use, the second …

Crowdsourcing is traditionally defined as obtaining data or information by enlisting the
services of a (potentially large) number of people. However, due to recent innovations, this …

In the past two years, several applications of generating three-dimensional (3D) buildings
from OpenStreetMap (OSM) have been made available, for instance, OSM-3D, OSM2World …

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is one of the most popular examples of a Volunteered Geographic
Information (VGI) project. In the past years it has become a serious alternative source for …