eprintid: 37174
rev_number: 12
eprint_status: archive
userid: 5878
dir: disk0/00/03/71/74
datestamp: 2025-08-16 09:10:02
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metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Klonner, Carolin
creators_name: Eckle, Melanie
creators_name: Usón, Tomás
creators_name: Höfle, Bernhard
title: Quality improvement of remotely volunteered geographic information via country-specific mapping instructions
subjects: ddc-550
divisions: i-120700
keywords: OpenStreetMap, country-specific mapping instructions, VGI, quality, disaster
abstract: 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.
date: 2017
publisher: ISCRAM
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00037174
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-371745
language: eng
bibsort: KLONNERCARQUALITYIMP2017
full_text_status: public
place_of_pub: Albi
pagerange: 939-947
book_title: Agility is coming: mines Albi : proceedings May 21-24, 2017 : ISCRAM 2017 : 14th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
editors_name: Comes, Tina
citation:   Klonner, Carolin ; Eckle, Melanie ; Usón, Tomás ; Höfle, Bernhard  (2017) Quality improvement of remotely volunteered geographic information via country-specific mapping instructions.  [Book Section]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/37174/1/klonner_et_al_2017_iscram.pdf