Quality measurement for openstreetmap buildings outlines in Baghdad/Iraq

OpenStreetMap (OSM) is the world’s biggest publicly licensed geographic data collection. Because OSM is rapidly being used in a wide range of applications, researchers have focused their efforts on determining its quality. The OSM buildings data quality is still ambiguous, due to the limitations, and a few researchers have evaluated the OSM buildings data quality through difficulties where the authoritative data are not obtainable. The focus of this research is to analyze and assess the accuracy of OSM buildings including completeness, and positional accuracy methods. Two different study areas in Baghdad city-Iraq have been investigated: Al-Rasheed and Al-Karrada. The process of the (OSM) data evaluation involved identifying the correspondence between OSM and reference data and computing the accuracy assessment parameters. The results showed that the positional accuracy of OSM buildings data in the Al-Rasheed area has good quality and is better than in the Al-Karrada area. The completeness was tested with the object-based technique which is a more precise and commonly used method. The OSM completeness assessment showed a low degree of completeness in the two study areas.