[diversity-talk] [HOT] knight civic media session

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Jun 23, 2013 at 12:11 PM, alyssa wright <alyssapwright at gmail.com>wrote:

> If time or bathroom break permits -- I humbly request your thoughts on
> what you see as the most
> significant/interesting/exciting/provoking/scandalous gap in citizen data
> collection.
>

Scandalous?  I find it scandalous that some people consume citizen-data
without also contributing to it.

In the OpenStreetMap context, some people use OpenStreetMap data, consume
it, yet they don't contribute by mapping their own local neighbourhood.  It
seems to me that those consumers are, at best, ignorant and, at worst,
greedy.

They are ignorant, in that they can't possibly have a full understanding of
the nuanced local-expert-generated data (and the OpenStreetMap tools and
processes) that they are consuming if they haven't taken the steps to
contribute as a peer-local-expert.  Their ignorance limits their potential
to benefit from the data they consume because their understanding is
limited.

They are greedy if they've made a conscious choice to prevent others from
benefiting from their local knowledge while at the same time they consume
the equivalent expertise from the others.

Both groups have presented reasoning behind their actions such as "It's too
hard" and "I don't have the time" and "my area is already mapped."

You might find this "thought provoking" or "unfortunate" rather than
"scandalous".
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