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  • Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
  • Data Privacy
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Geocoding is essential for spatial analysis but faces privacy challenges, especially with sensitive data like healthcare information.
  • Privacy regulations restrict data sharing, leading to "in-house" geocoding solutions with difficult external validation.
  • The scale of data exacerbates limitations, impacting the choice and effectiveness of geocoding strategies.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present bench4gis, a software framework for benchmarking privacy-aware geocoding solutions.
  • To address the quality assurance challenges in "in-house" geocoding due to data privacy restrictions.
  • To enable validation of geocoding results using surrogate data that respects privacy.

Main Methods:

  • Developed bench4gis, a software framework for evaluating geocoding methods under privacy constraints.
  • Utilized open big data sets as surrogate data for quality assurance and validation.
  • Benchmarked various privacy-aware geocoding strategies against large-scale, publicly available address data.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated that open big data can serve as effective surrogate data for geocoding quality assurance.
  • Validated the geographical meaningfulness of geocoding results for specific institutional locales.
  • Showcased the capability of bench4gis to benchmark different privacy-preserving geocoding approaches.

Conclusions:

  • bench4gis provides a robust solution for quality assurance in privacy-aware geocoding.
  • Leveraging open big data overcomes limitations of using sensitive data for validation.
  • This approach enhances the reliability and applicability of geocoding in privacy-sensitive domains.