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Quality in User Generated Spatial Content Carmen Brando, Bénédicte Bucher AGILE Conference 2010 Guimarães, May 10 - 14 Institut Géographique National (IGN), France Cogit Lab. 1 © IGN - 2010

Quality in User Generated Spatial Content: A Matter of Specifications

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Quality in User GeneratedSpatial ContentCarmen Brando, Bénédicte Bucher

AGILE Conference 2010Guimarães, May 10 - 14

Institut Géographique National (IGN), FranceCogit Lab.

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What’s it about?

Generated by: http://www.wordle.net

SC: Spatial ContentUGC: User Generated ContentUGSC: User Generated Spatial Content

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What’s it about?

Flickr

Wikipedia

Creation of Spatial Content (SC): Geotagging

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What’s it about?

Wikimapia

OpenStreet Map

Creation of Spatial Content (SC): Features Editing

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What’s it about?

5Generated by: http://www.wordle.net

SC: Spatial ContentUGC: User Generated ContentUGSC: User Generated Spatial Content © IGN - 2010

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Outline

• Quality• in User Generated Content (UGC)• of Spatial Content (SC)• in User Generated Spatial Content (UGSC)

• Proposed Approach• Conclusion and Perspectives

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Quality in User Generated Content (UGC): Definition

• is related to• whether is useful or not to users’ purposes:

fitness for use• users’ trust in the content: producer’s authority

• Wikipedia, best example of UGC, but…• quality issue: users are anonymous

• Wikis, easy and fast content edition• More advance collaborative editing tools assure

content consistency by reconciling concurrent operations• e.g. Google Wave

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• During Edition: Internal Coherence and Citing External Sources

Quality in User Generated Content (UGC): How to Improve it?

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• During Edition: Authority, Comprehensiveness and Collaboration Mechanisms

Quality in User Generated Content (UGC): How to Improve it?

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Quality in User Generated Content (UGC): How to Improve it?

• After Edition• Comparison with a Reference Source :

• Wikipedia vs. Encyclopedia Britannica (Nature 2005)

• Quantitative Measures : • Number of Edits, Number of Editors, Intensity of Cooperative

Behavior, Analysis of Featured Articles, etc. (Wilkinson, 2007) (Stvilia, 2005) (Mcguinness, 2006) and more…

• Revision History• Conflicts Detection/Reconciliation

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Quality in User Generated Content (UGC): How to Improve it?

Users manually resolve conflicts

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Conflicts Detection/Reconciliation

Quality in UGC Quality of SC Quality in UGSC Proposed Approach Conclusion & Perspectives

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Quality of Spatial Content (SC): Definition

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Real World

Ideal Representation(Nominal Terrain)

Specifications*

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* Buildings of area greater than 20m2

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Quality of Spatial Content (SC): Definition

IGN’s BD TOPO ®

Knowledge about how the real world is observed and how it is modeled in the database 13

NMA Specifications

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Quality of Spatial Content (SC): Definition

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Real World

Ideal Representation(Terrain Nominal)

Produced Data +Metadata (Specifications + Error Criteria)

InternalQuality

Specifications*

Production Process: Errors**

ExternalQuality

User’s Required Data

* Buildings of area greater than 20m2** Maybe mistakes have been made or reality has evolved

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Quality in User Generated Spatial Content (UGSC)

• UGSC for updating NMA's and private mapping organizations data through alerts

• OpenStreet Map, great influence in the way SC is produced and updated

• More recently, UGSC for complementing NMA's and private mapping organizations data through content edition (beyond simple alerts)

(Budhathoki, 2008) (Elwood, 2008) (Antoniou, 2009)15

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Quality in User Generated Spatial Content (UGSC)

• Qualification of contributors and contributions• A contributors' classification based on• their purposes (Coleman et al., 2009)• their geographic locations (Goodchild, 2009)• their trust relations with other users (Bishr et al., 2007)

• Distinguish between high and low value contributions• Rating systems (Elwood, 2008)• Marking regions with problems (Maué et al., 2008)• Comparison with reference source (Haklay, 2009)

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Proposed Approach: Specifications for UGSC?

• Certainly, this is appropriate for NMA’s and private mapping organizations

• What about Neogeography?• Neogeographers would be reluctant to provide

and work according specifications

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© Scott Adams

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Proposed Approach:Specifications for UGSC?

Guidelines

Tags ReferenceTags Reference

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Proposed Approach:Specifications for UGSC?

•Done by Keep Right!

http://keepright.ipax.at•Predefined integrity constraints are verified on OSM data•For instance, intersections without junctions

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Proposed Approach:Specifications for UGSC?

Before

After

• OSM Web Editor: Potlatch• Constraint: Intersections Without Junctions

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Proposed Approach:Specifications for UGSC?

• Special interest groups (Coote, 2008) have • stronger requirements on data quality• budget limitations for collecting, redacting and updating

specifications• lack of expertise on modeling techniques to ensure a user

generated spatial content (UGSC) consistency• interest in accepting some rules during contribution

• Therefore, assisting users to provide content specifications is important for them

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Yes We Can

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Proposed Approach: UGSC Specifications

• Assist users to provide specifications of their content for quality management

• UGSC Specifications1. to support on the fly consistency checking (e.g. 'a road

cannot intersect a river')2. to check consistency with external reference data,

reusing an existing model (Abadie, 2009)3. to reconcile concurrent editions of data (e.g. 'the

attribute name of a road is independent from geometry')

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Proposed Approach:Consistency Checking

• Lack of geometrical consistency between those feature types

• UGSC Specifications: An integrity constraint indicating the relation between these two features (Geometry sharing)

• Possible Reparation: placing automatically the line boundary throughout the middle of the waterwayOSM data corresponding to administrative

boundaries and waterways around theFrench city of Grenoble (December 2009)

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Proposed Approach: UGSC Specifications

• Assist users to provide specifications of their content for quality management

• UGSC Specifications1. to support on the fly consistency checking (e.g. 'a road

cannot intersect a river')2. to check consistency with external reference data,

reusing an existing model (Abadie, 2009)3. to reconcile concurrent editions of data (e.g. 'the

attribute name of a road is independent from geometry')

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Proposed Approach:Reconciliation Mechanism

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Tajel© Jorge Cham

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Cecilia© Jorge Cham

Changing name to ‘Avenue Bollée’

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Rue de Paris

Avenue Bollée

Adding a road segment to ‘Rue de Paris’

??UGSC Specification:

'the attribute name of a road is independent from geometry'

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Conclusion

• UGSC refers to new paradigm for producing SC• UGSC quality management from a NMA’s point of

view• Users describe their content in the form of

specifications to fit their purposes, if possible using reference data set

• Users improve UGSC quality by contributing with SC in a collaborative manner

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Perspectives

• Test our approach (on-going work) in the Geoxygene Plataform: http://oxygene-project.sourceforge.net, considering IGN data

• Eventually elucidate which elements should be considered in UGSC metadata

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• Thank you for listening!

• Any questions?

• Contact information: • [email protected][email protected]

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