OpenStreetMap
This is cross-linked from my blog, posted on 11 July 2023
I recently joined the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team in modering their Community Working Group and Tech Working Group’s discussions on AI-Assisted Mapping.
This, in part, was a reminder that I (still!) haven’t published an OSM diary that summarises my MA research, and that publication is still process. But it was also a reminder that I have yet to really summarise or bring together what I have shared so far.
Here’s a short summary:
Moderation: “Perspectives on AI-Assisted Mapping”
- Session 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTtTh6gHEwI
- Session 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pfdDV9xSoo
- These two sessions - recorded as hour-long discussions with unrecorded 30 minute discussions at the end, were really interesting (and much-needed!) community spaces for the OSM community. I’m grateful to have been given the trust needed to facilitate, and learned a lot from folks there. Most notably, I think the discussion primarily ended up focusing not on “what we should be building” but what AI means to mappers in the first place (these being very different things)!
Talk: “Crisis Maps, Community, and Corporations (an Anthropologist’s perspective)”
- Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0a84F0pdNU&t=351s
- Slides: Coming soon!
- This was given at the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Summit in 2021 in the form of a talk. It shared some of my initial thoughts around crisis mapping specifically, and citations in that direction. In particular, I focused a bit more on what defines the kinds of crises that become maps, and informational asymmetries within the community.