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The Participation Loop: Helping Citizens to Get In

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In this paper we will explore how to enhance the work of Open Street Map (OSM) mappers through the structuring of their contributions by calculating tasks. Tasks are a common way to break large jobs into smaller pieces. But in OSM the big ‘mapping’ job is not structured in any way. There is no task pool, or even anything similar. Using several different techniques and technologies, we will calculate well defined and assignable mapping tasks. With this approach, the community has more feedback over what is already done and what they need to do. Slowly, using such techniques, we engage these communities in the participation loop.

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  1. Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, 4710-057, Braga, Portugal

    Jorge Gustavo Rocha

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  1. Basilicata University Potenza, L.I.S.U.T. - D.A.P.I.T., 10, Viale dell’Ateneo Lucano, 85100, Potenza, Italy

    Beniamino Murgante

  2. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Perugia, Via Vanvitelli, 1, 06123, Perugia, Italy

    Osvaldo Gervasi

  3. Department of Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences, University of Cantabria,, Avda. de los Castros, s/n, Santander, C.P. 39005, Spain

    Andrés Iglesias

  4. School of Business Systems, Monash University, VIC 3800, Clayton, Australia

    David Taniar

  5. Department of Intelligent Informatics, Kyushu Sangyo University, 2-3-1 Matsukadai, 813-8503, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka, Japan

    Bernady O. Apduhan

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Rocha, J.G. (2011). The Participation Loop: Helping Citizens to Get In. In: Murgante, B., Gervasi, O., Iglesias, A., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B.O. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011. ICCSA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6783. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21887-3_14

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