Can Digital Goods be Neutral? Evaluating OpenStreetMap’s equity through participatory data visualisation

This project promotes digital equity by empowering members from under-represented communities to co-produce data visualisations and tools that examine and challenge the impact of neutrality as a guiding principle in a particular and relevant case of digital good: OpenStreetMap [OSM].

Latest blog posts

We’re presenting at State of the Map 2026: Whose Knowledge Counts?

We will be at State of the Map 2026 in Paris to present our analysis of diversity and exclusion in OpenStreetMap’s tagging proposals process.

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

Jul 17, 2026

Co-designing participatory data visualizations to evaluate OpenStreetMap’s equity: The Good, The Neutral and The Ugly

Our talk at STS Italia 2025 in Milan, presenting the participatory codesign process at the heart of this project and some preliminary results.

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo

Jun 11, 2025

Maps, world-views and neutrality: squaring the circle?

Our talk at Pint of Science Coventry 2025 on how maps shape the world — and whether OpenStreetMap can really be neutral.

Carlos Cámara-Menoyo, Timothy Monteath

May 19, 2025

Funding

This project is funded by the ESRC Digital Good Network through their Digital Good Research Fund 2024-25.