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

[Philip Barnes]

I am not sure pubs are a good thing to compare but I have certainly mapped playgrounds as I find them, no particular interest beyond trying to complete the map of my home town. Finding them does take time, they are not as easy to map as pubs (big buildings on the main roads).

We are not a huge community hence things like pubs can be surveyed just by driving through a place so there is going to be a bias, they are the low hanging fruit so to speak. 

Using playgrounds as an example, I believe I have mapped them all in my home town, 8 in town of 5000. But mapping such things as playgrounds does take a serious amount of time and shoe leather. 

Phil (trigpoint) 


On 5 September 2017 11:43:01 BST, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
>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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