[OSM-Science] Getting started on Science at OSM

[Peter Mooney]

Hello everyone,


Joost, Frank and I are very happy to see the establishment of the Science email list and the high number of subscriptions so far.


As Joost outlined on the Talk email list this list creation is a follow-up to the OSM-science-communication project initiated by myself, Frank Ostermann and Joost Schoupe. Info: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2017-August/078524.html


One of the issues we'll use this forum for is about the setup of common survey engine, to have a place to centralize some of the many surveys taking place in the OSM ecosystem. Info: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2018-January/004995.html


The three of us will be involved in the Academic Track (announcements to follow very soon) at SOTM 2018 in Milan. We feel that this could provide a very good starting point for meetings, discussions and collaborations between the academic/scientific community and the OSM community.


As we've outlined this Science list can be a forum to discuss/collaborate on the following:


- pitch or propose problems and challenges, based on OSM, to the academic community (and vice-versa)

- talk about recent scientific research on OSM

- develop the OSM research agenda

- get feedback and support on your planned OSM surveys (BEFORE they are undertaken)

- get feedback on your scientific plans and preliminary results from an interested subset of OSM community members

- look to develop collaborations, meetings etch (such as SOTM 2018),

- [add your idea here]


With best wishes - looking forward to many future discussions,


Peter, Joost and Frank.

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