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Map construction algorithms are usually evaluated by comparing the constructed map to a ground-truth map. In this chapter, several quality measures that have been used for map comparison are described. While these quality measures are related to the comparison of abstract graphs, map comparison is a more specialized problem since the common spatial embedding is a key property of road networks that captures the similarity of travel.The distance measures generally work for undirected or directed embedded graph models , and they include partial distances that match the constructed graph to a subset of the ground-truth . The general approaches include point set-based distances, path-based distances , and distances that compare the local topology of the graphs. In addition to distance measures, the concept of local distance signatures is introduced in order to visualize local differences and to locate the cause of large distances.
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Ahmed, M., Karagiorgou, S., Pfoser, D., Wenk, C. (2015). Quality Measures for Map Comparison. In: Map Construction Algorithms. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25166-0_6
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