Hi Frederic- You might want to look at the research of Monica Stephens around gender & participatory maps: http://www.slideshare.net/geographiliac/gendering-the-geoweb
She looks at the great divide between men & women volunteering geographic information in participatory systems and then also looks specifically at OpenStreetMaps and cases where moderators create categories that reflect their particular age/gender concerns (many categories for nightclubs, voting down categories for childcare facilities, etc). This is not a problem specific to OSM but particular to the whole participatory/crowdsourced web. It just seems exacerbated for the geoweb because women volunteer so much less info than men online. Wikipedia has been taking concerted steps to address their gender & geographic biases, for example. Maybe OSM has too (?) - I'm not sure - would love to hear about efforts in that direction if people know of them - Best, Catherine ///////////////////////////// Catherine D'Ignazio Research Assistant, MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media [email protected] || [email protected] || @kanarinka || +1 617 501 2441 || www.kanarinka.com On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Frederic Julien <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > I'm working on a presentation and interested to hear your thoughts. What are > the top 2-3 changes that could improve OSM data quality? That could be > processes, tools, methods, training, peer review, attributes, etc. > > If this sort of info is available elsewhere let me know. > > Looking forward to your answers. > > Many thanks, > > Frederic > > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://geowanking.org/mailman/listinfo/geowanking_geowanking.org
