User-generated content (UGC) platforms on the Internet have experienced a steep increase
in data contributions in recent years. The ubiquitous usage of location-enabled devices …

Many researchers and engineers are working diligently to develop new methods, materials,
and technologies to solve various issues that arise in geothermal energy exploitation and …

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 …

New, free and fast growing spatial data sources have appeared online, based on
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI). OpenStreetMap (OSM) is one of the most …

This paper deals with the issue of automatically matching networks with different levels of
details. We first present why this issue is complex through an analysis of the differences that …

Various applications, ranging from map creation tools to navigation systems, employ
methods introduced by the domain of georeferencing, which investigates techniques for …

In Germany, the data of the Open Street Map project has become available as an alternative
to proprietary road networks in commercial business geomatics software and their …

This article is centred on analysing the state of the art of the conflation processes applied to
geospatial databases (GDBs) from heterogeneous sources. The term conflation is used to …

Distance is a fundamental concept in spatial sciences. Spatial distance is a very important
parameter to measure the relative positions between spatial objects and to indicate the …

The field of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) has experienced a rapid and ongoing
growth of available sources for geospatial data. This growth has demanded more data …