[OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy

[Pierre Béland]

To keep is dynamism and retain contributors, it is essential for OSM to keep a flexible type of organizational mapping. To control some commercial organizations, we should not implement rules that will affect all the community, and make some contributors to slow down their participation because they find too restrictive new rules such as creating a second account or create a wiki page.

I dont think that we can justify to create a second account. This had the effect over the last few years to slow down some valuable Imports. Adding a hasthtag in the Changeset comment would do the same.  Also, we should avoid to place the burden of such controls on the contributors when there are other ways to do it.  For example, it could be possible to assure the communication between the HOT Tasking Manager and OSM editors such as ID and JOSM, adding automatically a hashtag on the Changeset comment.

We were successful in the last two years to develop a coordination model with various humanitarian organizations, UN agencies and Aerial imagery providers.  For the Haiyan Typhoon and the Ebola Epidemy, the OSM community had such a success and gained a fantastic media coverage. We are also seing more and more humanitarian NGO's doing some field work and bring data into OSM. This in parts of the world that badly need some mapping efforts in the context of more and more disasters to cope with.

As said by others before, how will we cover paid training actions, subsidies to develop various local communities, etc.


Let's be careful to not restrict such collaborations by implementing too rapidly rules that will restrict participation to such actions. 

 
Pierre 



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 De : Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com>
À : 'OSM Talk' <talk at openstreetmap.org> 
Envoyé le : Mercredi 14 mai 2014 1h44
Objet : [OSM-talk] Organizational mapping policy
 

We have more and more organizations and businesses mapping in OSM. 
Multiple organizations have been conducting paid editing in Europe and 
the US. This generally comes to light *after* complaints are made - with 
the company usually not identifying who they are, what their goals are, 
and what they want, beforehand. There have also been difficulties 
determining what has been mapped on behalf of an organization. 

We will likely see more of this type of editing in the future, and while 
not necessarily bad, there are differences between it and normal 
editing. Recent events in a project similar to OpenStreetMap - Wikipedia 
- have demonstrated that the participation of organizations in data 
editing can occasionally lead to misunderstandings or disharmony in the 
project, particularly where a lack of transparency is involved. 

For this reason the DWG is considering if it is necessary to issue 
guidelines for organizational editing. Some previous discussion is at 
http://lists.osm.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2013-November/002344.html 

There are some activities we do not want to cover in the guidelines

- Unorganized editing by employees, e.g. a shop owner adding their shop
  or nearby details to the map

- Editors mapping in response to a contest or similar where the contest
  organizer does not have the power to require them to edit 

- Individuals who, on their own accord, decide to participate in an 
  organised effort or challenge, like local mapping parties, Mapathons, 
  HOT projects, etc

Some possible guideline requirements could involve 

- Disclosing those who are directing them (e.g. employers or who they 
  are contracting for) on the users page

- Creating a wiki page with links to user pages of users mapping under 
  an organization's direction
    
- Requiring those working on broader projects to communicate and get 
  feedback from the community before starting

- Requiring disclosure of proprietary third-party sources used. 
  Organizations may have data from third parties that they can legally 
  use when contributing to OSM, but aren't able to directly show others
  the data

- Maintaining separate accounts if doing both personal and organizational 
  editing

The extent of editing activities covered is something else that needs to 
be discussed.

Some types of activities that *could* be covered are

- Teachers requiring their students to edit OSM as part of a course

- Consultants editing for multiple clients

- Being required to edit as part of an employment relationship

SEO spammers would be covered by this policy, but are not the target. 
They would ignore it, so we'll just end up using the existing tools 
of reverting and blocking.

Paul Norman
For the Data Working Group



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