![]() So, there’s a bias in the crowdsourced data,” Gonzalez, who now lives in Berlin, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “We realized that there were only a few women on the OSM chat. BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Miriam Gonzalez started contributing data to the world’s biggest crowdsourced map from her Mexico City home five years ago, she found herself part of a rare and odd group of volunteers.Īs she got to know some of the other contributors through an online discussion group, it became clear that of the 1.4 million people globally adding information to OpenStreetMap (OSM), known as “the Wikipedia of maps”, most are men.
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