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font-size: 14px;" lang="x-unicode">(apologies for a reply fairly
off-topic for the newbies list - I'm just replying to where it was
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On 29/04/2015 11:19, Giovanni Quattrone wrote:
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My name is Giovanni and I'm a researcher at University College
London, UK.
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I'm specialised in crowdsourcing research and in the past have
done many studies of OpenStreetMap.
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OK - presumably you're aware of the discussion of previous
research such as here(1) and here(2)? I'm assuming you're
familiar with the latter one because it's by someone you cite in
one of your linked papers... There have been some fairly
poorly-based questionnaires in the past, and while I'm sure that
yours isn't like that at all, perhaps some of the questions could
do with a bit more attention to detail? For example, the "which
editor" question ignores mobile editors completely and also
ignores Potlatch 2, which new signups on IE currently get by
default.
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I'm currently conducting a new OpenStreetMap study, and I'm
asking for your help. I'm trying to assess the extent to which
information on OSM is ever maintained or updated. Such knowledge
helps understand how to best support the OSM community with
appropriate tools.
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Presumably the survey part is to obtain an insight into mappers'
motiviations and you'll actually get details on what gets
maintained and what doesn't by looking at the lifecycle of data in
OSM - perhaps grab some data from an old post-licence-change
planet file and look at what's changed in selected areas there -
what got updated, what got deleted and redrawn, and what changeset
comments in which editors were used by mappers along the way?
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Your answers to the questionnaire will be stored securely and
they will be used only for research purposes.
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Confidentiality and anonymity will be maintained and it will not
be possible to identify you in any way.
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Obviously an answer isn't anonymous if users link to a changeset
of theirs (as I did) - presumably you're suggesting that people
don't do that!
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Let me know if, after having completed the survey, you would
like to receive the outcomes of my research, I will be more than
happy to share them with you once ready.
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I'd have thought that that'd be worth sharing in something like an
OSM diary entry or by a mail to the main "talk" list perhaps? I'd
certainly be interested in the results - I suspect that the
results will be very different in some OSM communities to others
and would be interested in how you think things vary globally (I
have a gut feel, based on some data, for some areas in GB but
haven't tried to come up with any hard statistics).
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Cheers,
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Andy
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(1) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-March/thread.html#72232">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-March/thread.html#72232</a>
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(2) <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://povesham.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/observing-from-afar-or-joining-the-action-osm-and-giscience-research/">https://povesham.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/observing-from-afar-or-joining-the-action-osm-and-giscience-research/</a>
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