Héctor Ochoa Ortiz
OSM contributor for over 10 years on a personal level, and contributing with local communities. Currently a PhD student researching the role of commercial users in Open Data Ecosystems for the ODECO project, at the University of Camerino (Italy).
Sessions
From the logs of 2 years of archived projects and the examination of the Tasking Manager interface, we studied how users behave and collaborate, how the interface influences this, and identified bottlenecks and areas of opportunity.
Employees of 25 companies that use OSM data or contribute to the overall OSM Ecosystem were interviewed. The goal was to see how the companies use the data, what motivates them to contribute value (data, tools, community-building, etc.) to the ecosystem, and the barriers they encountered.