Towards Accurate Open Source Map Services

Speaker:  Mohamed F Mokbel – Shoreview, USA
Topic(s):  Information Systems, Search, Information Retrieval, Database Systems, Data Mining, Data Science

Abstract

Map services, including routing, searching, and prediction, have empowered a variety of ubiquitous services and applications, including transportation, location-based services, ride-sharing, and delivery industry. Though there is extensive research in academia and industry for developing efficient algorithms for such services, all algorithms have the implicit assumption that the underlying map is accurate. Unfortunately, this assumption is not always true. Maps suffer from all sorts of inaccuracy that significantly impact the accuracy of map services. This talk will go through our recent efforts to significantly boost the accuracy of current and future map services, through exploiting two orthogonal directions. First, building accurate maps, with a broad definition of a map that goes beyond the traditional map topology to a more rich definition that includes traffic-related metadata, without which, most of map services will have low accuracy. Second, developing new techniques that would increase the accuracy of query processors over the accurately built maps. The talk will also serve as a call to the community to join arms and collaborate in building the most comprehensive worldwide open source accurate maps and map services.

About this Lecture

Number of Slides:  0
Duration:  60 minutes
Languages Available:  English
Last Updated:  20/03/2026

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