[Design] personas / audience

[Jaakko Helleranta.com]

And somewhere between developers and (consumer) endusers fall a significant group of GIS professionals and other professional (or pro-am) users that may well both be interested about raw data (but perhaps more often in a more limited extent than developers, I'm guessing) as well as existing services (that help them create maps, make analysis, etc).

Could we start to gather information about these things into something constructive (ie that builds soemthing as we go along) such as a wiki page? 

The reason I'm asking is that we're facing a more or less total make over of the Haiti wiki project page and considering creating some sort of local osm frontpage(?) for Haiti (such that eg German osm and some others have). 

So, I'm guessing that the issues that surface here are at least somewhat linked to both designing project wiki pages as well as local osm frontpages(?). I/we will start to pull stuff regarding Haiti-related usage together at some point in the near(ish) future. Perhaps it would make sense to have some "master list" -- or then not.

Cheers,
-Jaakko
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-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:03:01 
To: Richard Weait<richard at weait.com>
Cc: <design at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Design] personas / audience

On 9/13/11 10:28 AM, Richard Weait wrote:
> Data consumers - They've heard about our awesome Hot, Fresh data and
> now they want it.  They'll need to know how to responsibly consume
> OpenStreetMap data without irresponsibly consuming OpenStreetMap
> resources.
>
There are imho two very distinct types of "data consumers" and it is 
probably worth keeping them separate as their needs are quite different.

1) Developers - They'll need to know how to responsibly consume 
OpenStreetMap (raw) data without irresponsibly consuming OpenStreetMap 
resources. This includes things like usage policies, licenses and 
potentially links to external developer services.

2) Endusers - They might have heard of how wonderful  OpenStreetMap is, 
might have mapped a few POIs or streets and now want to know how to 
actually use OpenStreetMap in their daily lives. Unlike the first group, 
they are possibly quite tech unsavy. So they will mostly want nicely 
organised lists of existing applications that utilise OpenStreetMap data 
and links to the "wider OSM universe".



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