Towards a Landmark-Based Pedestrian Navigation Service Using OSM Data

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

卷:6

Alexander Zipf¹  Adam Rousell¹ 

[1] GIScience Research Group, University of Heidelberg, 69117 Heidelberg, Germany;

关键词: landmarks;    navigation;    mobile applications;    pedestrian;    OpenStreetMap;    OSM;    routing;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijgi6030064

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

With the advent of location-aware smartphones, the desire for pedestrian-based navigation services has increased. Unlike car-based services where instructions generally are comprised of distance and road names, pedestrian instructions should instead focus on the delivery of landmarks to aid in navigation. OpenStreetMap (OSM) contains a vast amount of geospatial information that can be tapped into for identifying these landmark features. This paper presents a prototype navigation service that extracts landmarks suitable for navigation instructions from the OSM dataset based on several metrics. This is coupled with a short comparison of landmark availability within OSM, differences in routes between locations with different levels of OSM completeness and a short evaluation of the suitability of the landmarks provided by the prototype. Landmark extraction is performed on a server-side service, with the instructions being delivered to a pedestrian navigation application running on an Android mobile device.

【 授权许可】

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