Quattrone, G;
Dittus, M;
Capra, L;
(2016)
Exploring Maintenance Practices in Crowd-Mapping.
In: Blustein, J and Herder, E and Rubart, J and Ashman, H, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT '16).
(pp. pp. 285-290).
ACM: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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Abstract
Crowd-mapping is a form of collaborative work that empowers users to gather and share geographic knowledge. OpenStreetMap is one of the most successful examples of such paradigm, where the goal of building a global map of the world is collectively performed by over 2M contributors. Despite geographic information being intrinsically evolving, little research has so far gone into analysing maintenance practices in these domains. In this paper, we perform a preliminary exploration to quantitatively capture maintenance dynamics in geographic crowd-sourced datasets, in terms of: the extent to which different maintenance actions are taking place, the type of spatial information that is being maintained, and who engages in these practices. We apply this method to 117 countries in OSM, over one year of mapping activity. Our findings reveal that, although maintenance practices vary substantially from country to country in terms of how widespread they are, strong commonalities exist in terms of what metadata is being maintained and by whom.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Exploring Maintenance Practices in Crowd-Mapping |
| Event: | 27th ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media 2016 (HT '16) |
| Location: | Halifax, CANADA |
| Dates: | 10 July 2016 - 13 July 2016 |
| ISBN-13: | 9781450342476 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1145/2914586.2914621 |
| Publisher version: | http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2914586.291462... |
| Language: | English |
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| Keywords: | Maintenance work, collaboration practices, OpenStreetMap, crowdsourcing, volunteered geographic information |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1489797 |
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