Whose Freedom? Whose Openness?

Sharing my reflections about certain responses to the recent “A Call to Take Action and Confront Systemic Offensive Behaviour in the OSM Community”...

18 March 2019 - A Careful and Caring Cartography

Hello, world 🌎🌍🌏. I am writing this from Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. A masjid (mosque) in our neighbourhood was attacked by a whit...

26 February 2019 - The Ethnography of Mapping

I’ve been reflecting some more on how to do research about and for OpenStreetMap recently. Here’s my latest brain dump: One of the reasons I’m afr...

Thinking About How to Do Research Properly about OpenStreetMap

Hello, fellow OSM contributors. I’ve been thinking about how to properly conduct research regarding OSM. Here’s a summary, thus far: In dealing ...