On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Simone Cortesi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simone@cortesi.com">simone@cortesi.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:10, Richard Weait <<a href="mailto:richard@weait.com">richard@weait.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen <<a href="mailto:wilmsend@gmail.com">wilmsend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>> We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations<br>
>> and obstacles to contribute<br>
>> geographic information to<br>
>> OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a<br>
>> free editable map of the world.<br>
><br>
> Dear OSM contributors, and survey authors,<br>
><br>
> You might not be sick of nonsense survey authors requesting our<br>
> personal information to "study our project". You might even be<br>
> tempted to reply and to fill in their survey.<br>
><br>
> If you do, please, first find evidence that you are responding to a<br>
> legitimate survey from an accredited research institution. And that<br>
> it has appropriate oversight and privacy guidelines.<br>
><br>
> Not everybody who uses "surveys" to collect personal information is<br>
> doing so in your best interest. In fact, they could not possibly be<br>
> doing so.<br>
><br>
> Two surveys, broadcast on our networks within a week? This stinks of<br>
> a new trend.<br>
<br>
</div>Good points Richard,<br>
in addition to this: I've been part of this community for a while (7<br>
years) and never heard about this people pretending to be from the<br>
university of Münster, Germany.<br>
<br>
A little bit of introduction and behind the scene information might<br>
help to clear up some fog.<br></blockquote><div><br>What's with the hostility? Surely the OP could have provided some more context - a quick google search turned up this page from within the Uni Münster domain[1]. Anyone wanting to find out about the legitimacy of OP's claims could have found that in 10 seconds. <br>
<br>Furthermore, I just took the survey and, even if the quality of the survey leaves something to be desired, no personal information is collected at all (which I define as any information that can be related to me as an individual). <br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://swsl.uni-muenster.de/2012/03/survey-on-motivations-to-contribute-to-openstreetmap-please-distribute-and-participate/">http://swsl.uni-muenster.de/2012/03/survey-on-motivations-to-contribute-to-openstreetmap-please-distribute-and-participate/</a><br>
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