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DESCRIPTION:The OpenStreetMap project has evolved as a social product and f
 orms a large community of people loosely connected through the joint work 
 on a global geographic database. OSM is now used widely for applications s
 uch as web maps and navigation services and data from OSM has been used in
  domains such as urban planning [1]\, SDG monitoring [2]\, disaster manage
 ment [3]\, public health [4]\, as well as during the COVID-19 pandemic [5]
 .\n\nIn addition to contributions by individual volunteers (mappers)\, the
 re is an intensifying trend that organized humanitarian [6] and corporate 
 mapping communities contribute to OSM in general [7]. As of 2023 OSM is no
  longer an exclusive community of amateurs\, but instead a community built
  of multiple smaller hobbyist\, professional\, amateur\, and experienced m
 apping communities\, in which professional stakeholders are sharply gainin
 g influence on map data creation.\n\nRecently\, there have been discussion
 s about a potential decline in OSM’s contributor base\, e.g. [8] and [9]
 . We argue that it is important to better understand the various approache
 s to measure mapping activity. Together with the participants of our works
 hop\, we want to discuss which measures are useful to understand “commun
 ity health” and help to foster mapping motivation.\n\nIn this workshop w
 e want to provide insights how we can measure and understand the evolution
  of the global and local OSM communities. We will provide several examples
  and hands-on exercise how the ohsome framework can be used to monitor map
 ping activity and community growth / stagnation / decline. For these examp
 les we will prepare an online course book and jupyter notebooks\, which ca
 n be used by the participants to run their own analyses and tackle their o
 wn research questions.\n\nThere is a need to integrate global and local pe
 rspectives about representation in OSM through interdisciplinary approache
 s. It has been outlined that it is not enough to describe the biased chara
 cteristics of map data or to simply assume that more data leads to better 
 decisions and just transformations [10]. To overcome issues of representat
 ion\, we argue that empowerment goes beyond involving local communities in
  the technical aspects of collecting map data.\n\nWe envision this worksho
 p as a great opportunity to get in touch with OSM community members and le
 arn more about their perspectives towards mapping in OSM and how to best b
 uild OSM communities. We would like to use some of the time of the worksho
 p to form smaller groups (e.g. world cafe setting) to let as many people s
 peak as possible and highlight diverse perspectives. As such we are lookin
 g forward to learn about the differences (and similarities) in OSM across 
 continents and regions and how they could be measured from the “data per
 spective”.\n\nReferences:\n\n[1] Milojevic-Dupont\, N.\, Hans\, N.\, Kaa
 ck\, L. H.\, Zumwald\, M.\, Andrieux\, F.\, de Barros Soares\, D.\, Lohrey
 \, S.\, Pichler\, P. P.\, and Creutzig\, F. (2020). Learning from urban fo
 rm to predict building heights. PLoS ONE\, 15(12 December):1–22.\n\n[2] 
 Hoek\, J. V. D.\, Friedrich\, H. K.\, Ballasiotes\, A.\, Peters\, L. E. R.
 \, and Wrathall\, D. (2021). Development after displacement: Evaluating th
 e utility of openstreetmap data for monitoring sustainable development goa
 l progress in refugee settlements. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Info
 rmation\, 10:153.\n\n[3] Scholz\, S.\, Knight\, P.\, Eckle\, M.\, Marx\, S
 .\, and Zipf\, A. (2018). Volunteered Geographic Information for Disaster 
 Risk Reduction—The Missing Maps Approach and Its Potential within the Re
 d Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Remote Sensing\, 10(8):1239.\n\n[4] Bha
 tia\, A.\, Mahmud\, A.\, Fuller\, A.\, Shin\, R.\, Rahman\, A.\, Shatil\, 
 T.\, Sultana\, M.\, Morshed\, K. A.\, Leaning\, J.\, and Balsari\, S. (201
 8). The Rohingya in cox’s bazar: When the stateless seek refuge. Health 
 and Human Rights\, 20(2):105–122.\n\n[5] Marco Minghini\, Serena Coetzee
 \, Levente Juhasz\, Godwin Yeboah\, Peter Mooney\, and A. Yair Grinberger 
 (2020). Editorial: OpenStreetMap research in the COVID-19 era. Proceedings
  of the Academic Track at the State of the Map 2020\, pages 1–4.\n\n[6] 
 Herfort\, B.\, Lautenbach\, S.\, Porto de Albuquerque\, J.\, Anderson\, J.
 \, and Zipf\, A. (2021). The evolution of humanitarian mapping within the 
 OpenStreetMap community. Scientific Reports\, 11(1).\n\n[7] Anderson\, J.\
 , Sarkar\, D.\, and Palen\, L. (2019). Corporate Editors in the Evolving L
 andscape of OpenStreetMap. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information\
 , 8(5):232.\n\n[8] https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/400
 701\n\n[9] https://www.hotosm.org/updates/driving-change-through-data-expl
 oring-humanitarian-mapping-research-and-analysis-initiatives/\n\n[10] Port
 o de Albuquerque\, J.\, Anderson\, L.\, Calvillo\, N.\, Coaffee\, J.\, Cun
 ha\, M. A.\, Degrossi\, L. C.\, Dolif\, G.\, Horita\, F.\, Klonner\, C.\, 
 Lima-Silva\, F.\, Marchezini\, V.\, Martins\, M. H. d. M.\, Pajarito-Graja
 les\, D.\, Pitidis\, V.\, Rudorff\, C.\, Tkacz\, N.\, Traijber\, R.\, and 
 Zipf\, A. (2021). The role of data in transformations to sustainability: a
  critical research agenda. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
 \, 49(August 2020):153–163.
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SUMMARY:Data meets people: Understanding OSM community activity with the oh
 some framework - Benjamin Herfort
URL:https://pretalx.com/sotm-africa-2023/talk/9SW7KC/
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