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Developing a user generated method to add landmarks to Openstreetmap

GHASEMI, MAHSA ( 2011)

The essential role of landmarks in human way finding motivated researchers to investigate options of integrating landmarks in navigation systems to generate automatic instructions that are close to human instructions. Theses attempts usually define methods to select landmarks from various datasets including cadastral maps and yellow pages. However, landmark selection in a volunteered geographic information database has never been tried before. In this research, Openstreetmap is used as a volunteered geographic information dataset to be used for adding landmarks. It is proposed to add landmarks with a user-generated method to Openstreetmap. A system is designed for this purpose and is tested in adding landmarks to Openstreetmap.