How do you harness crowd sourcing for a community that also delivers for business?
summary
Crowd-sourced mapping feeds commercial products: OpenStreetMap layers power base maps, Esri adds 3D buildings and trees and a living atlas, and TomTom ingests OSM with a staged quality-check holding bay; HOT uses a tasking manager that helped reach 98% of Fiji buildings mapped and issues Valencia urgent calls. Real-time wins and risks appear — the Baltimore bridge shows updates in 28 minutes, but imagery licensing (Maxar) and rural data gaps still block reliable, licensable inputs.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and panel welcome
- 5:25Resolving mapping conflicts
- 7:14Business integration of OSM
- 10:03TomTom’s OSM strategy
- 11:11Fiji’s OSM community training
- 12:58Supporting open source tools
- 15:45Improving satellite imagery
- 17:31Mapping urban vs rural areas
- 21:50OSM’s business maturity
- 23:33Emergency mapping speed
- 24:00Q&A session begins
- 38:58Closing remarks and thanks
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