Assessment of the Completeness of OpenStreetMap and Google Maps for the Province of Pavia (Italy)

Marica Franzini, Laura Annovazzi-Lodi, Vittorio Casella

2020

Abstract

Free access web-based mapping is nowadays largely used in several areas such as navigation, location-based services or when it is necessary to obtain quickly geographical information. Some of them are based on volunteers’ work, among which OpenStreetMap (OSM), while some others were design for commercial purposes, such as Google Maps (GM). Given the variety of contributors and their heterogeneity, one of the critical aspects of OSM is the homogeneity and quality level of its information; furthermore, GM is also largely consulted but presents inhomogeneity between densely populated and rural areas. The paper aims at analysing the buildings completeness of OSM and GM over the Province of Pavia, in Northern Italy: the applied method will be presented together with the results obtained at two different time frames (spring 2018 and winter 2018). Finally, a quick review about the volunteers that had effectively contributed to OSM will be presented.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Franzini M., Annovazzi-Lodi L. and Casella V. (2020). Assessment of the Completeness of OpenStreetMap and Google Maps for the Province of Pavia (Italy).In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM, ISBN 978-989-758-425-1, pages 270-277. DOI: 10.5220/0009564302700277

in Bibtex Style

@conference{gistam20,
author={Marica Franzini and Laura Annovazzi-Lodi and Vittorio Casella},
title={Assessment of the Completeness of OpenStreetMap and Google Maps for the Province of Pavia (Italy)},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,},
year={2020},
pages={270-277},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009564302700277},
isbn={978-989-758-425-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management - Volume 1: GISTAM,
TI - Assessment of the Completeness of OpenStreetMap and Google Maps for the Province of Pavia (Italy)
SN - 978-989-758-425-1
AU - Franzini M.
AU - Annovazzi-Lodi L.
AU - Casella V.
PY - 2020
SP - 270
EP - 277
DO - 10.5220/0009564302700277