[OSM-talk] Explanation of crowd sourcing?

[Tim Waters]

On 16 March 2013 00:59, Dave F. <davefox at madasafish.com> 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

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