<div dir="ltr">Hi Allan, *,<div><br></div><div><div>One of my biggest reservations is the fact that the survey is being conducted in English only.</div><div><br></div><div>From my work for weeklyOSM I know for sure that many contributors from French-speaking cultural circles or speakers from Latin America will certainly be overwhelmed by the survey in English. The same applies to many of the German-speaking contributors I have spoken to.</div><div><br></div><div>In this way, the result will certainly not be representative.</div><div><br></div><div>cheers </div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-10-08 9:37 GMT+02:00 Allan Mustard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:allan@mustard.net">allan@mustard.net</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Dear Friends,</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">I just took the survey,
and have to say that my graduate degree in agricultural economics,
which included a course in survey sampling and statistical
methods, informed me that there was not a lot of bias in the
survey, with all due respect to my OSM volunteer colleagues who
have raised objections to it. IMHO the survey addresses a very
real problem of correcting problems inserted by paid organized
mappers (with which I have had to contend more than once in
mapping the distant, largely unheard of country of
Turkmenistan), who are thousands of miles away, and base their
edits on five-year-old Bing imagery coupled with gross
assumptions of what the ground truth would reveal.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Could the survey have
been designed better? Yes, probably it could have been, had we
engaged some social scientists with Ph.D.s in statistical survey
techniques, but for the OSM Foundation's purposes, this survey
will likely prove adequate to gauge the opinions of the mapping
community. I'm glad I had the opportunity to voice my opinion
about something that irritates me--having to fix errors inserted
by people who aren't within a thousand miles of here, but think
they know what they are doing.</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Warm regards to all,
best regards from sunny Ashgabat--and be sure to look up my
Mapillary images from this weekend of a trip to see the longest
dinosaur tracks in the world, once my smartphone finishes
uploading them!</font></p>
<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">cheers,<br>
apm-wa (Allan Mustard)<br>
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<div class="gmail-m_-8220345370152609831moz-cite-prefix">On 10/6/2017 1:01 PM, Frederik Ramm
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On 20.09.2017 06:50, Paul Norman wrote:
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<pre>The Data Working Group is conducting a survey as part of its work on a
policy covering paid mapping.
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<pre>We plan to close the survey on Sunday night (at 23:59:59 UTC), that's 2
days and 16 hours from now. We'll then take some time to analyze the
results and share them with you, then draft a policy informed by the
results and the discussion here and elsewhere, and present that for
further discussion.
Bye
Frederik</pre></blockquote></div></blockquote></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">## Manfred Reiter - -<br>## N 49° 25' 11.028" E 06° 50' 47.328" </div><div dir="ltr">## <a href="http://www.weeklyOSM.eu">www.weeklyOSM.eu</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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