[Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Greg Morgan]

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Zoe Gardner <zoegardner3 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear OSM talk subscriber
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> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
> University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in
> geospatial crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
> Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is
> concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially
> affect the usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is
> available to location based service providers which use OSM as their
> primary geospatial database.
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> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
> map.
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Zoe,

I believe that you need to go back to the drawing board.  OSM is not about
gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. OSM is about people with
leisure time that are willing to spend to add nodes to a map.  If I like to
add buidlings to the map, there is nothing about those nodes and one way
that compose the building that would discriminate or leave out information
based on gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation.

This sounds like one of those surveys designed to damage OSM.
"data that is collected and subsequently what is available to location
based service providers"
That statement sound like you are performing research for a vendor that
cannot compete with OSM.

Regards,
Greg
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