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

[Zoe Gardner]

Dear All

Further to my email yesterday regard, I would like to reassure subscribers
here that the research is bona fide. I included a link to my University
webpage in the original post which I thought would give the survey the
required credence.

I agree with Charlotte that it would have been more credible to send the
post from my University email and this was my error. Apologies for any lack
of uncertainty in this respect. Please do complete the survey if you are
inclined!

Best wishes
Zoe

On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 7:36 PM, <ajt1047 at gmail.com> wrote:

> If it helps, I can confirm that I have met the researcher concerned at an
> OSM meetup in Nottingham. We talked about the project a bit, and what's
> been said about the research here doesn't differ from what was s‎aid then.
>
> Happy to answer questions from the US board if anyone thinks it will add
> to the "web of trust" here :)
>
>
> *From: *Charlotte Wolter
> *Sent: *Monday, 4 September 2017 19:25
> *To: *Talk-US at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject: *[Talk-us] Fwd: Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
> Follks,
>
>         It would be nice if we could get some confirmation that this is a
> real research projects being done by an actual researcher at Nottingham. If
> it is legit, why is the return email address from Gmail rather than the
> university?
>         Is there some mechanism that we can set up to confirm that the
> research is for real, such as running it through the US board first? I
> don't mind contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.
>
> Charlotte
>
>
>
> From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardner3 at gmail.com>
> To: talk-us at openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk-au at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
>
>
> Dear OSM talk subscriber
>
> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
> University of Nottingham in the UK, interested in participation biases in
> geospatial crowd-sourced 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 that use OSM as their primary
> geospatial database.
> 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. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can
> then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this
> bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have
> therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
> minutes to complete.
> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks' time, 60 respondents
> will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
> way participation biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable new
> strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial
> information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the
> role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability,
> and could raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
> In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
> activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below)
> and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging
> service.
> https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
> Thank you
>
> Zoe
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> Charlotte Wolter
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