Mooney, Peter and Corcoran, Padraig
(2013)
Understanding the Roles of Communities
in Volunteered Geographic Information
Projects.
In:
Progress in Location-Based Services.
Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography
(35).
Springer-Verlag, pp. 357-371.
ISBN 9783642342035
Abstract
As a society we are now more connected than ever before. Citizens
interact with each other and form virtual communities based on a common interest
or being involved in certain cultural, political, intellectual, or other issues. Volunteered
Geographic Information (VGI) is generated when citizens annotate
content from social media and smart devices. OpenStreetMap is a famous example
of a VGI project with a very large community of contributors. This chapter
examines this community and investigates the types of contributors and interactions
amongst members of OSM. Our results show that there are very small groups
of individuals creating and editing over 85 % of all OSM objects in three casestudy
cities. Editing and contribution behaviour is mostly steady and consistent
over time except during months where OSM ‘mapping parties’ occur or when
freely available spatial data is bulk imported into OSM. The paper also provides
results of analysis into the social interaction between contributors to OSM where
we show that a very small number of contributors are actively editing and
maintaining the data submitted by other contributors. This indicates that most
contributors work exclusively on their own data and rarely edit the work of others.
Overall this paper will be of interest to LBS practitioners considering using OSM
as a source of spatial data for LBS applications.
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Book Section
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Additional Information: |
Dr. Peter Mooney is a research fellow at the Department of Computer
Science NUI Maynooth and he is funded by the Irish Environmental Protection Agency STRIVE
programme (grant 2008-FS-DM-14-S4). Dr. Padraig Corcoran is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow
at the School of Computer Science and Informatics at UCD. He is funded by IRCSET under
the EMBARK initiative. |
Keywords: |
VGI; OpenStreetMap; Virtual communities; Social interaction; Networks; |
Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science |
Item ID: |
5732 |
Identification Number: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34203-5_20 |
Depositing User: |
Peter Mooney
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Date Deposited: |
27 Jan 2015 12:50 |
Journal or Publication Title: |
Progress in Location-Based Services, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography |
Publisher: |
Springer-Verlag |
Refereed: |
Yes |
Funders: |
Irish Research Council for Science Engineering and Technology (IRCSET), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
URI: |
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Use Licence: |
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