Consumed at Scale: AI-Driven Extraction and the Political Economy of OpenStreetMap

Room: Martinique

Saturday, 17:20
Duration: 20 minutes (plus Q&A)

Language: en


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  • Hannah Boettcher

Large-scale scraping attacks on OpenStreetMap’s infrastructure have exposed a fundamental tension between open geodata as a community-maintained commons and its role in current commercial AI development dynamics. This presentation examines the implications of AI-driven data extraction for OSM’s infrastructure and licence compliance guidelines as well as its consequences for OSM’s position within the geospatial data ecosystem.