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

[Abhishek Nagaraj]

These are amazing resources -- thank you. They are very timely.

Abhishek

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 8:35 AM Levente Juhász <jlevente89 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Abishek,
>
> I just noticed this thread, sorry for the late reply. Hopefully you still
> find my response useful. There has been some work done on this. I'm cherry
> picking a few below:
>
> - One of my earlier studies might be useful where I look at a data import
> and investigate the activity of different user groups with different
> motivation:
> Juhász, L., & Hochmair, H. (2018). OSM Data Import as an Outreach Tool to
> Trigger Community Growth? A Case Study in Miami. *ISPRS International
> Journal of Geo-Information*, *7*(3), 113.
>
> - One classic and highly cited study that describes motivations in VGI
> projects:
> Coleman, D., Georgiadou, Y., & Labonte, J. (2009). Volunteered geographic
> information: The nature and motivation of produsers. *IJSDIR*, *4*(1),
> 332-358.
>
> - Another classic specifically about OSM:
> Budhathoki, N. R., & Haythornthwaite, C. (2013). Motivation for open
> collaboration: Crowd and community models and the case of OpenStreetMap. *American
> Behavioral Scientist*, *57*(5), 548-575.
>
> - And of course, the 2014 review paper by Neis & Zielstra has a lot of
> good information on this. Check out section 3.2.3. Motivation, Behavior and
> Gender Dimensions that lists a couple surveys. I personally think that this
> contribution is very important because research quite often refers to
> OSMers as "non-experts", however, many of the mappers have background in
> geography, cartography, gematics, GIS, etc. There's some proof in this
> review.
> Neis, P., & Zielstra, D. (2014). Recent developments and future trends in
> volunteered geographic information research: The case of OpenStreetMap. *Future
> internet*, *6*(1), 76-106.
>
> These are just the first few papers that came to my mind. GIScience and
> VGI research specifically has done quite a lot of work on this topic.
>
> Cheers,
> Levente
>
> On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 3:26 PM Clifford Snow <clifford at snowandsnow.us>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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>>> Abhishek Nagaraj
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Abhishek Nagaraj
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