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

[Marc Gemis]

While I agree that changing peoples mapping habits is possible by
posting about certain mapping subjects, or developing apps, I do not
see why it is wrong to question whether a typical mapper only maps
what interests him/her or whether they also map other stuff.

I map a lot of items in which I have no personal interest, but because
I know other people are interested and because I want to work on the
best map possible.
Are there other mappers that map e.g. playgrounds (even if they do not
have children) ? Or are playgrounds mainly mapped by people with young
children?

Is not it worth to investigate this type of mapping habits ?


m

p.s. Who said you have to start mapping what you do not want to map? I
might have missed this with all the cross posting going on.

On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 12:27 PM, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is how it's done
>
> http://www.dw.com/en/online-map-shows-wheelchair-accessible-locations-worldwide/a-15381244
>
> I met this bloke at SOTM Japan some years ago.   He didn't put out a
> questionaire about whether non-disabled persons tended to tag less
> accessability tags than disabled persons, because he already knew the
> answer. He just went out and mapped them, created a website to support his
> interest and got thousands of people interested in his project. Truly an
> inspirational mapper.
>
>
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