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Research Article

Quality assessment of volunteered geographic information for outdoor activities: an analysis of OpenStreetMap data for names of peaks in Japan

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Pages 333-345 | Received 19 Jul 2021, Accepted 11 Mar 2022, Published online: 01 Jul 2022

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