Document Type
Article
Department/Program
Data Science
Journal Title
International Journal of Geo-Information
Pub Date
5-2020
Publisher
MDPI
Volume
9
Issue
6
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Over the last decade, Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) has emerged as a viable source of information on cities. During this time, the nature of VGI has been evolving, with new types and sources of data continually being added. In light of this trend, this paper explores one such type of VGI data: Volunteered Street View Imagery (VSVI). Two VSVI sources, Mapillary and OpenStreetCam, were extracted and analyzed to study road coverage and contribution patterns for four US metropolitan areas. Results show that coverage patterns vary across sites, with most contributions occurring along local roads and in populated areas. We also found that a few users contributed most of the data. Moreover, the results suggest that most data are being collected during three distinct times of day (i.e., morning, lunch and late afternoon). The paper concludes with a discussion that while VSVI data is still relatively new, it has the potential to be a rich source of spatial and temporal information for monitoring cities
Recommended Citation
Mahabir, Ron; Schuchard, Ross; Crooks, Andrew; Croitoru, Arie; and Stefanidis, Anthony, Crowdsourcing Street View Imagery: A Comparison of Mapillary and OpenStreetCam (2020). International Journal of Geo-Information, 9(6).
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060341
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi9060341
