On 16 March 2013 00:59, Dave F. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > I wanted to send a link to people who'd never heard of OSM that explains the > basics of what it is & entails, but I couldn't find a page with a clear, > simple explanation of what crowd sourcing is & that they can contribute .
You could have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons-based_peer_production which applies to OSM - and which I think also describes this type of crowdsourcing. As crowdsourcing is sometimes thought of by internet capitalists as getting stuff that would cost money done for free by volunteers, I always try to tell people that: "crowdsourcing is not getting people to do your work for you, but rather changing your work so that people can participate and collaborate together with it" Cheers, Tim > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
