Maxwell Owusu
Maxwell Owusu is a geospatial analyst and researcher in Geoinformatics, Land Use Change, and he has been developing free and open source framework for large scale urban applications. He has conducted research in the use of OpenstreetMap and earth observation for mapping urban poor communities as well as analyzing local knowledge.
Session
OpenStreetMap (OSM) constitutes a new open geographic database and offers several possibilities of adding local knowledge. While the importance of local knowledge is largely acknowledged in the OSM community, relatively few scientific studies have evaluated them. This study presents a framework to measure local data contribution in OSM in three case studies. The results highlight a framework for measuring local data in OSM as well as the distinct mapping stories of local OSM communities.