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Research Articles

Analysis of positional uncertainty of road networks in volunteered geographic information with a statistically defined buffer-zone method

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Pages 1807-1828 | Received 07 Sep 2018, Accepted 07 Apr 2019, Published online: 29 Apr 2019

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