OpenStreetMap past(s), OpenStreetMap future(s) (AAG2016)

Presentation at the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco

Blog post summarizing the talk: https://hi.stamen.com/openstreetmap-past-s-openstreetmap-future-s-cafddc2a4736

Transcript

1. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp Alan McConchie Lead Cartographer, Stamen Design PhD Candidate, University of British Columbia alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups AAG San Francisco March 31, 2016 OpenStreetMap past(s), OpenStreetMap future(s) 1
2. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp wiki.osm.org/wiki/Stats 2
3. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp wiki.osm.org/wiki/Stats 3
4. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 4 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia
5. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 5 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedians
6. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 6 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability
7. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 7 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deletionism_and_inclusionism_in_Wikipedia
8. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 8 OSM has no notability rule: an arbitrary amount of detail is possible
9. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 9 OSM has no notability rule: an arbitrary amount of detail is possible but somebody has to maintain it!
10. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 10 From wiki gardening... ...to map gardening?
11. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 11 source: NASA
12. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 1. Ghost town 12 2. Garden 3. Borgesian map 4. Singularity Cosmological futures for OpenStreetMap:
13. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 13 New vs modified nodes (hypothesis)
14. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 14 1. Ghost town
15. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 15 1. Ghost town
16. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 16 2. Garden
17. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 17 2. Garden
18. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 18
19. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 19 3. Borgesian map
20. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 20 3. Borgesian map
21. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 21
22. 22 tangrams.github.io/curblines by @saikofish
23. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 23 bostonography.com/2014/where-not-to-park-in-cambridge
24. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 24 4. Singularity
25. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 25 4. Singularity
26. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 26 OSM planet file (actual)
27. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 27 London
28. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 28 Berlin
29. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 29 Tokyo
30. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 30 Port-au-Prince, Haiti
31. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 31 San Francisco
32. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 32 Moscow
33. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp 33 Necessary number of gardening edits = + New nodes × error rate Existing nodes × rate of real-world change ?
34. alan@stamen.com // @mappingmashups // #AAG2016 // sta.mn/dnp @mappingmashups 34 Thanks! alan@stamen.com Slides: sta.mn / dnp