Towards Assessing The Quality Of Volunteered Geographic Information From OpenStreetMap for Identifying Critical Infrastructures

Herfort, B., Eckle, M., De Albuquerque, J. P. and Zipf, A. (2015) Towards Assessing The Quality Of Volunteered Geographic Information From OpenStreetMap for Identifying Critical Infrastructures. In: ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings, Kristiansand, Norway, 24-27 May 2015, ISBN 9788271177881

Abstract

Identifying the assets of a community that are part of its Critical Infrastructure (CI) is a crucial task in emergency planning. However, this task can prove very challenging due to the costs involved in defining the methodology and gathering the necessary data. Volunteered Geographic Information from collaborative maps such as OpenStreetMap (OSM) may be able to make a contribution in this context, since it contains valuable local knowledge. However, research is still due to assess the quality of OSM for the particular purpose of identifying critical assets. To fill this gap, this paper proposes a catalogue of critical asset types, based on the analysis of different reference frameworks. We thus analyze how good the emergent OSM data model is for representing these asset types, by verifying whether they can be mapped to tags used by the OSM community. Results show that critical asset types of all selected sectors and branches are well represented in OSM.

• Item Type: Conference Proceedings
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Porto de Albuquerque, Professor Joao
• Authors: Herfort, B., Eckle, M., De Albuquerque, J. P., and Zipf, A.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Urban Studies
• Journal Name: ISCRAM 2015 Conference Proceedings - 12th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management
• ISBN: 9788271177881

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