Geographic biases are 'born, not made': Exploring contributors' spatiotemporal behavior in OpenStreetMap

Jacob Thebault-Spieker; Brent Hecht; Loren G Terveen

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Geographic biases are 'born, not made': Exploring contributors' spatiotemporal behavior in OpenStreetMap

Jacob Thebault-Spieker, Brent Hecht, Loren G Terveen

Computer Science and Engineering

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Abstract

The evolution of contributor behavior in peer production communities over time has been a subject of substantial interest in the social computing community. In this paper, we extend this literature to the geographic domain, exploring contribution behavior in OpenStreetMap using a spatiotemporal lens. In doing so, we observe a geographic version of a “born, not made” phenomenon: throughout their lifespans, contributors are relatively consistent in the places and types of places that they edit. We show how these “born, not made” trends may help explain the urban and socioeconomic coverage biases that have been observed in OpenStreetMap. We also discuss how our findings can help point towards solutions to these biases.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	71-82
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9781450355629
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148350
State	Published - Jan 7 2018
Event	2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, GROUP 2018 - Sanibel Island, United States Duration: Jan 7 2018 → Jan 10 2018

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Name	Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work

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Other	2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, GROUP 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Sanibel Island
Period	1/7/18 → 1/10/18

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Keywords

Coverage biases
Geographic human-computer interaction
OpenStreetMap
Peer production

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Thebault-Spieker, J., Hecht, B., & Terveen, L. G. (2018). Geographic biases are 'born, not made': Exploring contributors' spatiotemporal behavior in OpenStreetMap. In GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (pp. 71-82). (Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148350

Geographic biases are 'born, not made' : Exploring contributors' spatiotemporal behavior in OpenStreetMap. / Thebault-Spieker, Jacob; Hecht, Brent; Terveen, Loren G.

GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. p. 71-82 (Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work).

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Thebault-Spieker, J, Hecht, B & Terveen, LG 2018, Geographic biases are 'born, not made': Exploring contributors' spatiotemporal behavior in OpenStreetMap. in GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork. Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 71-82, 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork, GROUP 2018, Sanibel Island, United States, 1/7/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3148330.3148350

Thebault-Spieker J, Hecht B, Terveen LG. Geographic biases are 'born, not made': Exploring contributors' spatiotemporal behavior in OpenStreetMap. In GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork. Association for Computing Machinery. 2018. p. 71-82. (Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work). doi: 10.1145/3148330.3148350

Thebault-Spieker, Jacob ; Hecht, Brent ; Terveen, Loren G. / Geographic biases are 'born, not made' : Exploring contributors' spatiotemporal behavior in OpenStreetMap. GROUP 2018 - Proceedings of the 2018 ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork. Association for Computing Machinery, 2018. pp. 71-82 (Proceedings of the International ACM SIGGROUP Conference on Supporting Group Work).

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