[Portugal] Kort Game - Location-based web app which uses gamification to improve OpenSt...

[Hugo Martins]

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Location-based web app which uses gamification to improve OpenStreetMap
via Slashgeo.org by on 1/27/13

I'd like to introduce a new location-based game: Kort.

This web app motivates users to help improving OpenStreetMap (OSM)
data. Game-like elements are used like credit points and badges in a
mission to resolve missing spatial data. Kort combines the concept of
gamification with volunteered geographic information and is targeted to
non-specialists. Within three weeks more than 1,000 users registered
and it has been translated into 11 languages!

After having signed in with OSM or Google account, credit points (so
called 'Koins') are collected by the players on a mission task.
Examples are POIs without a name, where users have to enter the missing
label. All proposals for solutions are then validated by other players.
If a proposal has passed validations (around 3 depending on error
type), it is considered complete.

Data errors are downloaded every night from a project called KeepRight.
The data covers many parts of the world except for parts of North
America and others. The final task of integrating the passed proposals
into OpenStreetMap has not been realized yet. It can be done manually,
though. This an other enhancements like moderating campaigns are
planned in the near future.

The project has been implemented by two computer science students
during their bachelor thesis at the Geometa Lab of the University of
Applied Sciences, Rapperswil (Switzerland). It's based on HTML5, free
(open source) and it runs on iPhone and Android, and in Chrome.

For more information visit http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/KortGame
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