Formed in
2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue
archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of
history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and
has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
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OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap was founded by Steve
Coast in 2004, and since that year it is growing exponentially. OSM
is a good example of Volunteered Geographical Information, because it is
bottom-up approach that is completely based on volunteers. A different
approach is used by Google maps. Google maps uses a top-down approach, were
professionals are making the maps, and provide these maps to the people.
Because much more people are participating in OSM, these maps are more
detailed than Google Maps (figure 18).
It is quite easy to make some changes
in OSM. There is a special tool that enables users to edit OSM in ArcMap.
You can download the dataset that you want to change from the website and upload the
revised version to the website. It is easy in use, and with this tool you
can contribute to mapping our own world, and create a detailed map of places
that you are familiar with (figure 19). A disadvantage of OSM is the fact
that the map making is not done by professional, and therefore we have
a higher change of errors in the dataset. If we must believe the
following quote from Linus: ''Given enough
eyeballs, all bugs are shallow'' this is not a big problem.
Figure
18. Difference
between Google maps (left) and OpenStreetMap (right).
Figure
19.
Editing OSM in ArcMap.
Haklay, M., & Weber, P. (2008).
Openstreetmap: User-generated street maps. Pervasive Computing, IEEE, 7(4),
12-18.
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