[OSM-Science] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM

Abhishek Nagaraj abhishek.nagaraj at gmail.com
Thu Aug 2 22:47:42 UTC 2018


Great to be on this list. I've always wanted something like Wikimedia
Research (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Research) for OSM, and
the efforts by Joost, Peter and Frank are a great step in this direction.

I have been researching / working on OSM stuff for over 4 years now.
Unfortunately, my day job involves translating OSM research into
academic-language -- but hopefully this forum is a good place to translate
some of what I've been working on to the community and soliciting the
community's feedback. Here is a talk I gave at SOTM-US recently:
https://youtu.be/K1Gh3kSxIok and here is one from my student
https://youtu.be/Rjh3_1NUVNo).

Hopefully this is of interest and hopefully will have more time to chime in
on this group on occasion!

Abhishek

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 10:56 AM Peter Mooney <Peter.Mooney at mu.ie> wrote:

> I had seen this on the [OSM-talk] mailing list and via the digital
> libraries.
>
>
> The paper is well structured and well presented but I think the actual
> connection of the study to OSM is somewhat weak.
>
>
> Myself, Joost and Frank Ostermann (in absentia) spoke about this issue at
> SOTM 2018 last week. Our slide deck is here.
>
> https://slides.com/osmbe/deck/fullscreen
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* joost schouppe <joost.schouppe at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday 1 August 2018 19:38:53
> *To:* science at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* [OSM-Science] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Paper/Article about stagnation
> in OSM
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: *Frederik Ramm* <frederik at remote.org>
> Date: di 31 jul. 2018 om 23:51
> Subject: [OSM-talk] Paper/Article about stagnation in OSM
> To: Talk Openstreetmap <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't necessarily agree with all that's been written but I found
>
> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2053951718790591
>
> an interesting read: "The social construction of technological stasis:
> The stagnating data structure in OpenStreetMap."
>
> Grossly simplified, the author tries to answer the question "why haven't
> we shipped API 0.7 yet" from a social science viewpoint.
>
> ---
>
> This looks like it's a scientific equivalent to the famous "Why OSM is in
> serious trouble" from a while back. Quote from the abstract:
>
> "The technological stasis is rather rooted in the dominant position of few
> project members who are able to change the software design; it is their
> perception of the project that defines how data should be stored and what
> features are dispensable."
>
>
>
> --
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Abhishek Nagaraj
Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Haas
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