Assessing the completeness of bicycle trail and lane features in OpenStreetMap for the United States

• Verfasst von: Hochmair, Hartwig [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Zielstra, Dennis [VerfasserIn]
• Verfasst von: Neis, Pascal [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: Assessing the completeness of bicycle trail and lane features in OpenStreetMap for the United States
• Verf.angabe: Hartwig H. Hochmair, Dennis Zielstra, Pascal Neis
• Jahr: 2015
• Jahr des Originals: 2014
• Umfang: 19 S.
• Fussnoten: First published: 11 August 2014 ; Gesehen am 07.09.2020
• Titel Quelle: Enthalten in: Transactions in GIS
• Ort Quelle: Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell, 1996
• Jahr Quelle: 2015
• Band/Heft Quelle: 19(2015), 1, Seite 63-81
• ISSN Quelle: 1467-9671
• DOI: doi:10.1111/tgis.12081
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• K10plus-PPN: 1728949793

Abstract

This article assesses the completeness of bicycle trail and on-street lane features in OpenStreetMap (OSM). Comparing OSM cycling features with reference data from local planning agencies for selected US Urbanized Areas shows that OSM bicycle trails tend to be more completely mapped than bicycle lanes. Manual evaluation of mapped cycling features in OSM and Google Maps for selected test areas within the Central Business Districts of Portland (OR) and Miami (FL) through comparison with governmental datasets, satellite imagery, and Google Street View, shows that the Bicycle layer in Google Maps can help to identify some missing or erroneously mapped OSM cycling links. However, Google Maps was also found to have some gaps in its data layers, suggesting that consultation of current trail and lane data from local planning authorities, if available, should be considered as an additional data source for bicycle related planning projects.