title: Quality improvement of remotely volunteered geographic information via country-specific mapping instructions
creator: Klonner, Carolin
creator: Eckle, Melanie
creator: Usón, Tomás
creator: Höfle, Bernhard
subject: ddc-550
subject: 550 Earth sciences
description: Volunteered geographic information can be seen as valuable data for various applications such as within disaster management. OpenStreetMap data, for example, are mainly contributed by remote mappers based on satellite imagery and have increasingly been implemented in response actions to various disasters. Yet, the quality often depends on the local and country-specific knowledge of the mappers, which is required for performing the mapping task. Hence, the question is raised whether there is a possibility to train remote mappers with country-specific mapping instructions in order to improve the quality of OpenStreetMap data. An experiment is conducted with Geography students to evaluate the effect of additional material that is provided in wiki format. Furthermore, a questionnaire is applied to collect participants’ socio-demographic information, mapping experience and feedback about the material. This pre-study gives hints for future designs of country-specific mapping instructions as well as the experiment design itself.
publisher: ISCRAM
contributor: Comes, Tina
date: 2017
type: Book Section
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37174/1/klonner_et_al_2017_iscram.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00037174
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-371745
identifier:   Klonner, Carolin ; Eckle, Melanie ; Usón, Tomás ; Höfle, Bernhard  (2017) Quality improvement of remotely volunteered geographic information via country-specific mapping instructions.  [Book Section]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37174/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
rights: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/help/license_urhg.html
language: eng