Comparison between OSM and authoritative road network datasets

This repository contains scripts for comparing road network datasets from OpenStreetMap (OSM) and an authoritative source. The repository contains two folders:

• GRASS-scripts provides three Python modules to perform the complete dataset comparison in GRASS GIS
• WPS_OSM-REF-Comparison provides the code to setup the Web Processing Service (WPS) for a preliminary comparison of the datasets

Detailed instructions on how to use the tools are provided in each of the two folders.

Related academic publications

• Brovelli M.A., Minghini M. & Molinari M.E. (2016) An automated GRASS-based procedure to assess the geometrical accuracy of the OpenStreetMap Paris road network. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences Volume XLI-B2, 609-614. doi:10.5194/isprsarchives-XLI-B2-609-2016 [pdf]

• Brovelli M.A., Minghini M., Molinari M.E. & Mooney P. (2016) Towards an Automated Comparison of OpenStreetMap with Authoritative Road Datasets. Transactions in GIS. doi:10.1111/tgis.12182 [pdf]

• Antunes F., Fonte C.C., Brovelli M.A., Minghini M., Molinari M.E. & Mooney P. (2015) Assessing OSM Road Positional Quality with Authoritative Data. Proceedings of the VIII Conferência Nacional de Cartografia e Geodesia, Lisbon (Portugal), October 29-30, 2015, ISBN 978-989-8152-10-7 [pdf]

• Brovelli M.A., Minghini M., Molinari M.E. & Mooney P. (2015) A FOSS4G-based procedure to compare OpenStreetMap and authoritative road network datasets. Geomatics Workbooks 12, 235-238, ISSN 1591-092X [pdf]

Related academic presentations

• Brovelli M. A., Minghini M. & Molinari M. (2016) A GRASS-based automated procedure to compare OpenStreetMap and authoritative road network datasets. Presented at the XVII Meeting of GRASS and FOSS4G Italian users, Parma (Italy), February 11-12 2016 [pdf]