>I think crowdsourced is accurate. Playing Devil's Advocate, "crowdsourced" isn't appropriate for large swathes of OSM data: Europe, for example, is dominated by imported, not crowdsourced, CORINE data.
I'd describe OSM data simply as "open". Cheers, Joseph On 26 November 2012 12:55, Greg Troxel <g...@ir.bbn.com> wrote: > > Kate Chapman <k...@maploser.com> writes: > > > Hi All, > > > > So I met with a group looking to link OSM data to other data. Meaning > > have a link that says this village in OSM is equivalent to this > > village in these 3 other datasets. Part of this process involves > > having metadata for everything. > > > > The people I met with asked me a question I hadn't been asked before: > > "What do people prefer the OSM data be described as in the metadata?" > > > > So for example crowdsourced infromation, volunteered geographic > > information, non-authoritative data, or something else? > > I think crowdsourced is accurate. > > Volunteer is not quite right, because we don't know how many people are > being paid to put information into OSM. Certainly that happens, and > it's not a problem. In looking at the essence of what makes OSM > unique, the non-paid status of most mappers is not really the point; > it's that anyone can map. > > I would avoid non-authoritative, because it's a loaded word that drags > in all sorts of connotations, particularly about accuracy. Certainly > there is a meaning where data is authoritative if published by the > entity responsible for setting the facts, e.g. street names in towns. > Then there is road centerline data from state DOTs, which is one step > removed. The elephant in the room, however, is data like NAVTEQ and > Tele Atlas, which is similar to OSM in that it is produced privately (or > imported from DOT sources). However, I would expect that some like to > claim that NAVTEQ data is "authoritative" and OSM data is > "non-authoritative", and I think OSM should avoid self-labeling as > non-authoritative. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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