[OSM-Science] looking for pointers to surveys of OSM members

[Clifford Snow]

You might be able to gather some preliminary information on motivation by
reviewing Belgium's Mapper of the Month [1] articles. From the articles you
should be able to get some broad categories for use in your survey. I found
it very helpful when researching for a talk I gave a while back.

I do send a welcome message, as does the Belgium community, to each new
user in Washington State. I would be happy to include a link to your
survey. So far this year I've gotten 229 new users. Not all get a message.
For example I quite sending to an infamous SEO that uses unique user names
on each edit. And they never reply. Of those messages I send only a small
handful reply. I suspect you'd get similar results.

[1] https://openstreetmap.be/en/projects/motm.html

Best,
Clifford

On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 10:59 AM Abhishek Nagaraj <
abhishek.nagaraj at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Could someone help me figure out what is out there in terms of surveys of
> OSM contributors? I'm looking for two types of data -- (a) demographics /
> background of contributors and (b)"qualitative" motivations for why someone
> contributes.
>
> Any pointers would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>
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