Diversity/Research

This page will be used to gather existing research on the topic of diversity in OpenStreetMap or drawn from research done on adjacent, comparable communities in support of the efforts of the OSMF Diversity Working Group.

Formal Resources

Formal resources include published academic papers, peer reviewed articles, books/ebooks, academic journals (including open access journals).

Date	Title	Author/Source	Category	Summary/Topic	Link
March 2011	A qualitative enquiry into OpenStreetMap making	Yu-Wei Lin, New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, Vol 17	Analysis	Global collaboration, contributor identities	Abstract
December 2012	Motivation for open collaboration. Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreetMap.	Budhathoki, N. R., & C. Haythornthwaite. American Behavioral Scientist 57(5), 548-575	Survey	survey of 444 mappers	Abstract
May 2013	Gender and Experience-Related Motivators for Contributing to OpenStreetMap	Manuela Schmidt & Silvia Klettner, Vienna University of Technology	Survey	online survey results of 516 mappers	Slideshow Paper
August 2015	Testing the Usability of OpenStreetMap's ID Tool.	Behrens, J., van Elzakker, C. P., & Schmidt, M. The Cartographic Journal, 52(2), 177-184	accessibility analysis	results usability tests of iD w/ 18 participants	Abstract
May 2015	Towards assessing the quality of volunteered geographic information from OpenStreetMap for identifying critical infrastructure.	Herfort, B., M. Eckle, P. Porto de Albuquerque & Zipf, A. Heidelbert University. Proceedings of the ISCRAM 2015 Conference - Kristiansand	Analysis	reviews the quality of OSM for identifying critical assets	Paper
May 2016	Diversity in volunteered geographic information: comparing OpenStreetMap and Wikimapia in Jerusalem	Christian Bittner	Analysis		Abstract
January 2017	Gender differences in OpenStreetMap contributor activity, editing and tagging behaviour	Z. Gardner, P. Mooney, L. Dowthwaite and G. Foody - Maynooth University & University of Nottingham	Survey	online survey, 293 mappers	Paper
June 2017	Redressing the Exclusiveness. Challenges which Prevent New Users from Contributing to OSM	Robert Vogler, Sabine Hennig, Nicole Ferber, University of Salzburg, Austria ,Journal for Geographic Information Science	Analysis	barriers to participation in OSM	Paper
May 2019	The Gendered Geography of Contributions to OpenStreetMap: Complexities in Self-Focus Bias	Maitraye Das, Brent Hecht, Darren Gergle. Northwestern University	Analysis	the relationship between participation and content disparities in OpenStreetMap	Paper
April 2019	Corporate Editors in the Evolving Landscape of OpenStreetMap	Jennings Anderson, Dipto Sarkar, Leysia Palen. University of Colorado Boulder & University of Singapore	Analysis	influence of corporate editors	Paper
June 2019	Quantifying gendered participation in OpenStreetMap: responding to theories of female (under) representation in crowdsourced mapping	Z. Gardner, P. Mooney, L. Dowthwaite, S. De Sabbata.	Survey	updates to 2017 paper. how to widen participation in volunteered geographic information (VGI).	Paper

Informal Resources

Surveys of the OpenStreetMap community, any related interview materials, recorded online conversations, conference presentations, non-peer-reviewed articles, social media content, etc.

Date	Title	Author/Source	Category	Summary	Link
February 2020	Sustainability in OpenStreetMap: Building a more stable ecosystem in OSM for Development and Humanitarianism	Erica Hagen for the Open Data for Resilience Initiative, GFDRR Labs, World Bank	analysis	challenges to the OSM project	White Paper
April 2020	OpenStreetMap US Community Survey Results (Part I)	Maggie Cawley & Jennings Anderson	Online Survey	initial survey results	Post