Hannah Boettcher
Hannah Boettcher is a doctoral researcher and research associate at the Institute of Geography at Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg. Their research is situated in the field of digital geography, combining political- and social-geographical perspectives on digital spatial data with computational and qualitative methods. Hannah Boettcher is a founding and editorial member of the journal GRID (https://gridisnotajournal.de/), and their work includes social- and political-geographical research on OpenStreetMap as well as the social-scientific and discourse-analytical use of GIS-based methods. Methodologically, they combine qualitative approaches with computational text and data analysis, including natural language processing (NLP) and topic modelling, in order to investigate how digital spatial data and technologies reshape knowledge production and spatial governance.
Session
Large-scale scraping attacks on OpenStreetMap's infrastructure have exposed a fundamental tension between open geodata as a community-maintained commons and its role in current commercial AI development dynamics. This presentation examines the implications of AI-driven data extraction for OSM’s infrastructure and licence compliance guidelines as well as its consequences for OSM’s position within the geospatial data ecosystem.