[OSM-talk] Analysing the OSM community

[Matthias Meißer]

Great Maurizio,

well currently it's just an idea and I might have the time to realize it 
in the next month. Before I would ask my university, I would like to get 
a go or not go from the community if datamining in this kind might be 
possible.

What I try to do is to collect attributes per user of this channels and 
try to link them using nick or email. Later I would like to pseudomize 
the dataset (random names, userid, no email, jitter in edit bboxes,...) 
and make it available to other researchers. Of course I would sign a 
contract to the foundation about privacy.

You already linked your work here Maurizio?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research