QualiOSM: An Architecture to Improve Data Completeness on OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a large spatial database in which geographic information is voluntarily contributed by thousands of users. In Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and more specifically, in Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI), as in the case of OSM, the issue of data completeness is a constant concern, since users without technical knowledge actively participate in the processes of including, editing and excluding data. Also in thecase of OSM, users can add information to the objects assigning special labels for them. These labels are popularly called tags, and the process of assigning them to objects contributes to improving the attribute completeness, an important metric of data quality. In this context, this article proposes the QualiOSM architecture, which generates an automatic tag adder with the purpose of improving the completeness of address information for OSM objects in Brazil, using the reverse geocoding tools Nominatim, CEP Aberto and the database from Correios. The QualiOSM architecture showed good results for improving the completeness of city, neighborhood and street information in OSM objects, especially in scenarios of large urban centers, where the level of mapping is usually better compared to scenarios in rural or peripheral environments.

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Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Urban Planning

European Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies ◽

10.26417/ejis.v1i1.p85-92 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 85

Author(s):

Sonila Xhafa ◽

Albana Kosovrasti

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Information Systems ◽

Geographic Information Systems ◽

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Space ◽

Spatial Data ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Geographic Information ◽

Social Infrastructure ◽

Urban Centers

Geographic information systems can be defined as a intelligent tool, to which it relates techniques for the implementation of processes such as the introduction, recording, storage, handling, processing and generation of spatial data. Use of GIS in urban planning helps and guides planners for an orderly development of settlements and infrastructure facilities within and outside urban areas. Continued growth of the population in urban centers generates the need for expansion of urban space, for its planning in terms of physical and social infrastructures in the service of the community, based on the principles of sustainable development. In addition urbanization is accompanied with numerous structural transformations and functional cities, which should be evaluated in spatial context, to be managed and planned according to the principles of sustainable development. Urban planning connects directly with land use and design of the urban environment, including physical and social infrastructure in service of the urban community, constituting a challenge to global levels. Use of GIS in this field is a different approach regarding the space, its development and design, analysis and modeling of various processes occurring in it, as well as interconnections between these processes or developments in space.

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