How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map An Area Well? The validity of Linus’ law to Volunteered Geographic Information

The paper "How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map An Area Well? The validity of Linus' law to Volunteered Geographic Information" has appeared in The Cartographic Journal. The proper citation for the paper is: Haklay, M and Basiouka, S and Antoniou, V and Ather, A (2010) How Many Volunteers Does It Take To Map …

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Linus’ Law and OpenStreetMap – evidence from large-scale analysis

One issue that remained open in the studies on the relevance of Linus’ Law for OpenStreetMap was that the previous studies looked at areas with more than 5 contributors, and the link between the number of users and the quality was not conclusive – although the quality was above 70% for this number of contributors …

Linus’ Law and OpenStreetMap

One of the interesting questions that emerged from the work on the quality of OpenStreetMap (OSM) in particular, and Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) in general, is the validity of the ‘Linus’ Law’ for this type of information. The law came from Open Source software development and states that ‘Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow’ …