A framework for performance analysis of OpenStreetMap data in navigation applications: the case of a well-developed road network in Australia
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Although much effort has been put into assessing and improving OpenStreetMap (OSM) data quality, further research is required to determine its reliability and robustness for real-world applications. This study introduces a framework, built on open-source geospatial tools, for analysing the performance of OSM road data across different navigation applications. We tested this framework on an extensive 41,000 km road network in Australia. While our findings generally supported the quality of the OSM dataset, analyses of census data revealed two key relationships: first, a significant link between a city’s population and the quality of its OSM data, and second, a strong influence of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure on OSM data development. Furthermore, while navigation tests showed that OSM road networks performed reasonably well, scenario analyses highlighted several issues: a strong correlation between data quality and navigation accuracy; a negative impact of distance on OSM-based route accuracy for long inner- and inter-city routes due to accumulated errors; and the tendency of OSM to suggest sub-optimal paths for routes to isolated locations. This framework offers valuable benefits to a wide range of users. The OSM community can use it to assess data quality before application; individuals and businesses can easily evaluate its utility for navigation and route-planning; and local governments can benefit from improved quality control, particularly for projects involving Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs). Finally, the framework’s capacity to design and analyse various routing scenarios provides new insights into overall road network quality.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
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| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.004 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it