Pre-editor: Free software to support collaborative processes to improve Open Street Map

Wilhelm Carstens Soto, Jaime Gutierrez Alfaro

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Abstract

Nowadays digital maps are a basic tool for decision making. Map making is not an objective process, organizations, institutions and big tech companies reproduce their own interests and biases in the map. Open Street Map (OSM) is a repository containing open geospatial data contributed by millions of people around the globe. With OSM data is possible to create maps that don't reproduce interests of a few, and also, by being open source, it allows auditing on how a decision was made. Although OSM is a free participation platform, it has some socio-technical characteristics that make it difficult for volunteers to participate in geospatial data capture and editing processes. This paper offers a functional prototype developed as free software to counteract these difficulties.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings - 5th Jornadas Costarricenses de Investigacion en Computacion e Informatica, JoCICI 2021
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781665498326
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event5th Jornadas Costarricenses de Investigacion en Computacion e Informatica, JoCICI 2021 - 5th Costa Rican Conference on Research in Computing and Informatics, JoCICI 2021 - San Jose, United States
Duration: 25 Oct 202129 Oct 2021

Publication series

NameProceedings - 5th Jornadas Costarricenses de Investigacion en Computacion e Informatica, JoCICI 2021

Conference

Conference5th Jornadas Costarricenses de Investigacion en Computacion e Informatica, JoCICI 2021 - 5th Costa Rican Conference on Research in Computing and Informatics, JoCICI 2021
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySan Jose
Period25/10/2129/10/21

Keywords

  • Critical Cartography
  • Free Cartography
  • Free Software
  • Open data
  • Open Street Map

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