The German radio station WDR 5 broadcasted a short report about OpenStreetMap with a focus on basics and navigation in the science programme “Quarks – Wissenschaft und mehr” last month on 19.01.2021. One of the German pioneers of OpenStreetMap – Frederik Ramm – explains some background on how the OpenStreetMap community works. Also Alexander Zipf reports about the OSM related research at GIScience Heidelberg and HeiGIT, such as OSM quality analytics or supporting humanitarian mapping and GIS analyses.
The podcast is available online: WDR 5 Quarks – Wissenschaft und mehr, Sendung vom 19.01.2021, ca. from minute 49:10 to 55.15)