Assessing OpenStreetMap as an open property map

Abstract

Approximately 5/6th of the world’s land and property rights, restrictions and responsibilities (RRRs) are unrecorded. This applies to both the developing and developed world and suggests that a considerable gap exists in worldwide land tenure information. Crowdsourcing can be used as a methodology for addressing this information gap. This chapter investigates the potential of OpenStreetMap (OSM) as a crowdsourcing system in collecting and recording land tenure information including RRRs. The chapter uses a case study in Victoria, Australia, to investigate the quality of the current OSM data and its potential as a crowdsourced record of public properties. The chapter studies the completeness ..