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Is Volunteered Gi Sustainable
The document discusses the sustainability of volunteered geographic information (VGI) and highlights contributor motivations and challenges. It identifies a small number of contributors dominating contributions in various cities, raising concerns about contributor fatigue and the long-term viability of platforms like OpenStreetMap. The author concludes that VGI is sustainable, emphasizing the importance of understanding user engagement and values.
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Is Volunteered Gi Sustainable
- 1. Is Volunteered GeographicInformation Sustainable?Steven Feldman
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- 3. How many ofyou contribute to OSM?FrequentlyModeratelyOnce or twiceHow many of you earn a living or part from GI?Other IT?Married?Kids?
- 4. What do youwant from a street map?
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- 12. Growing numbers ofcontributors
- 13. Soaring to newheights
- 14. Past the tippingpoint?
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- 16. Is there aVGI tail off?
- 17. North LondonLong tail– Top 10 contributors out of 189 contributed 81%!
- 18. Redlands, California75% ofcontributions from 2 users
- 19. Belfast84% of contributionsfrom 4 people
- 20. Amsterdam76% of edits(exc AND) from 5 contributors out of 104
- 21. ObservationsMost cities dependentupon small number of contributorsSome evidence of user fatigueLarge cities attract new major contributors, small ones don’t
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- 35. What does thismean for OpenStreetMap?
- 41. Invite a BigGuy
- 50. Is Volunteered GeographicInformation Sustainable?YES
- 51. Thank YouSteven FeldmanKnowWheree:[email protected]: http://GIScussions.blogspot.comt: http://twitter.com/stevenfeldman
Editor's Notes
- #2 Thank you OSM for inviting an arch paleo like me to talk to youComing from a local government background I have talked with many clients who were increasingly interested in how OSM could form part of their mapping data strategy. The question frequently came up is this sustainable?I am not sure what people mean by a sustainable map but perhaps this morning we can explore the concept and how it might impact the future of OSM and its community.
- #3 This morning I want to briefly consider what does sustainable mean for a street map, what might be the special characteristics of a volunteered street map, explore the way that people participate in OSM and consider the motivations of people who contribute volunteered geographic information. Finally I want to offer a few thoughts and pose a couple of questions to you about the future of the OSM community.
- #40 And we can all learn from participating
- #43 The people who have been pretty good friends to OSM over the years
- #51 So back to my opening questionIs VGI sustainable? CLICKIf OSM keeps doing the things that it currently does well then it looks like the future is rosy