Abstract
The interaction of the editing operations from different OpenStreetMap (OSM) contributors provides valuable information on collaboration patterns. This chapter describes a new type of spatial collaboration network which can be extracted from OSM edit history data. Drawing from current literature in the field of Social Network Analysis different concepts of collaboration are discussed. It is shown how to apply the measurement of interlocking responses known from research on non-spatial collaboration in wikis to collaboration in OSM. The advantages of the approach are demonstrated by an analysis of collaboration on OSM sample data.
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Körner identified and solved the versioning problem for ways in a similar way (http://mazdermind.de/Slides/Workshop-Erlangen-2013/Slides.pdf, 2014-05-23).
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As they refer to ways as polygons and polylines in their approach it is not obvious to us how they deal with the problem of way shape changes through node location shifts.
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and originally applied to revision histories of wiki pages.
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http://overpass-api.de/ (2014-05-26).
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It is announced that it will provide some history information in future (announced at FOSSGIS 2013, Robert Olbricht).
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/API_0.5 (2014-05-23).
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http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License (2014-05-23).
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There are exceptions: reuse of deleted OSM object ids was not prohibited in the beginning.
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Who regard it as confirmation and use it to determine trust in and quality of given features.
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Stein, K., Kremer, D., Schlieder, C. (2015). Spatial Collaboration Networks of OpenStreetMap. In: Jokar Arsanjani, J., Zipf, A., Mooney, P., Helbich, M. (eds) OpenStreetMap in GIScience. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14280-7_9
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