[OSM-newbies] [research survey] Your perspective in editing OpenStreetMap

[Giovanni Quattrone]

Hi Andy,
thanks for your feedback, your points and links are very useful.

As for the survey, it is only a part of my current work on OSM. The 
results of this survey will be coupled with an extensive quantitative 
analysis of pattern of changes and updates all around the world in OSM. 
I've already some interesting preliminary results from the data. I'll 
share with you soon some early results so to have also your feedback.

Apologise again for my off-topic thread.

Cheers,
Giovanni



On 30/04/2015 20:35, SomeoneElse wrote:
> (apologies for a reply fairly off-topic for the newbies list - I'm 
> just replying to where it was posted)
>
> On 29/04/2015 11:19, Giovanni Quattrone wrote:
>>
>> My name is Giovanni and I'm a researcher at University College 
>> London, UK.
>> I'm specialised in crowdsourcing research and in the past have done 
>> many studies of OpenStreetMap.
>
> 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.
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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?
>
> ...
>
>>
>> Your answers to the questionnaire will be stored securely and they 
>> will be used only for research purposes.
>> Confidentiality and anonymity will be maintained and it will not be 
>> possible to identify you in any way.
>
> 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!
>
>>
>> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andy
>
>
>
> (1) 
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-March/thread.html#72232 
>
>
> (2) 
> https://povesham.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/observing-from-afar-or-joining-the-action-osm-and-giscience-research/ 
>
>
>
>
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