OPEN STREET MAP DATA AS SOURCE FOR BUILT-UP AND URBAN AREAS ON GLOBAL SCALE

Many types of applications require information about built-up areas and urban areas. Thus, there is a need for a global, vector-based, up-to-date, and free dataset of high resolution and accuracy. The OpenStreetMap (OSM) dataset fulfills those demands in principle. However, its focus is not land use...

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Main Author: T. Brinkhoff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2016-06-01
Series:The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences
Online Access:http://www.int-arch-photogramm-remote-sens-spatial-inf-sci.net/XLI-B4/557/2016/isprs-archives-XLI-B4-557-2016.pdf