[Osmf-talk] Paid Mapping / WikiPR like issues in OSM?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 11/29/2013 12:59 AM, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
> I think you've touched upon the key issue here, which isn't paid vs
> non-paid, it's a question of motivation and incentive. and how this
> interacts with the issue of agency.

It seems that more than about "agency" your example is about incentive
and motivation. You're saying that if there's enough incentive to map
supermarkets then people will cheat.

Certainly a valid point (but then again - an employee caught cheating
might lose their job[*], while an individual mapper caught cheating
might only gets a couple of messages). Interestingly this is an argument
often heard in the context of "gamification" as well - if you make a
game where you get points for mapping supermarkets then the very same
could happen.

Bye
Frederik

[*] Unless of course, as with WikiPR, cheating is part of the job
description!

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