[Talk-ca] Enablers and Barriers for Voluntary Participation in Crowdsourcing Platforms

[John Whelan]

My feeling is OpenStreetMap has two sides. The first is local adding 
local knowledge to the map.  The other I'll call armchair mapping.  When 
Stats Canada did the pilot it tapped the local Ottawa mappers who meet 
physically.

I would agree that amongst mappers with the most edits there is a high 
number of retired people and those with disabilities involved and these 
may not be visible.  Tapping them for groups coming together to map can 
be a problem.

In my view typically the most productive mappers are those with a 
special interest.  Adding WiFi access or churches for example or even a 
change of street name.

We also have a number of teachers who would like to use OSM and in 
particular the building project to involve their students.  We get a 
fair amount of data added but the quality can be questionable.  HOT and 
others I think have found that using a restricted set of tasks and tags 
works best.

My personal feeling is giving feedback is useful.  So the challenge for 
the building project is how to engage people.  What are the most useful 
tags to add?

I'd suggest some sort of web site giving the number of buildings mapped 
and the tags that have been added by city.  Graphs with time as one axis 
would be nice.

Certainly certain activities are more complex than others.  Importing 
buildings is not a task I'd suggest for teenage mapper with twenty 
minutes experience.  Breaking out the tasks is a task in itself and for 
4 million buildings I think it could benefit from a project plan.

I think we've seen with the 2020 project that just saying it would be 
nice to have by is not really enough to sustain it but who would do it 
I'm not sure.

Cheerio John


Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-02 11:28 AM:
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> Apropos the ongoing efforts to educate new volunteers, the discussion 
> section of this research paper on enablers and barriers may be useful 
> https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0747563216305295/1-s2.0-S0747563216305295-main.pdf?_tid=31ea73b8-7cb4-4eca-acc4-062aa79c278b&acdnat=1541171937_ecb61791a7d798a1491503b71f69b0ab 
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