TrustMap: Towards Trust Recommendations for Maps

The web is a rich environment for exchanging spatial information. When spatial information is shared in the form of images, i.e., maps, these images almost never come with meta-information about how they were generated. This kind of meta-information is often called knowledge provenance. Access to knowledge provenance may facilitate users to make informed decisions about the quality of maps. In this paper, we propose TrustMap, a new approach for enhancing maps with trust recommendations. For a given map, TrustMap can generate recommendations from the knowledge provenance and a network of trust relations between sources of information used to derive the map. The paper describes a TrustMap implementation.