SotM 2011 session: Insert Coin To Play

Summary

In this SOTM11 session Martijn van Exel discussed a few related topics:

• The Warm Geography of OSM versus the Cold Geography of traditonal geodata.
• Expressing the local Warmth of OSM by taking the temperature of local OpenStreetMap communities.
• An important raison d'etre of cold local communities is that it's still too hard to get involved with OSM, to take those first steps - what I call The First Mile
• Some ideas from gaming and other online communities that could help pave that First Mile:
  • Tiered editing capabilities: you 'earn' the right to make more complicated edits
  • Local OSMasters who watch over newcomers through an auto-OWL
  • New contributors are introduced to their OSMaster(s)

Code

The code I used to calculate the Community Scorecards, the Data Temperature and build the Temperature Maps is on GitHub. See the example below. You will need osmium / osmjs to run it on your own osm files.

Links

• Slides on Slideshare
• Video Stream
• FOSSLC Stream
• Blog posts:
  • On the source code
  • On Warm vs. Cold Geography
  • On Taking Temperature of Local Communities