[OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

Jeff Meyer jeff at gwhat.org
Wed Jan 9 19:49:15 GMT 2013


+1 to JM's request for putting together a plan to gather data. Moral and
ethical questions aside, we don't know the value to OSM unless we test.

I believe larger sites do things like offer a different home page to
different users - e.g. one with these links, and then one without - in an
attempt to compare two concurrent data sets, but I'm not sure how feasible
that approach would be.

The timeframe for the test is another data point - did the Comms WG have
any thoughts on how to long to run this test? 3 months? 6 months?

- Jeff

On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org> wrote:

> On 09/01/2013 01:37, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>
>> I may be a grumpy old dinosaur but I don't see how diluting the
>> Openstreetmap brand into the bland broth of proprietary centralized social
>> services that plague the Internet nowadays will bring any value... But
>> that's just my worthless opinion [..] But first, can we agree that user
>> behaviour data is the raw material ?
>>
> Data-driven research : 100% of subsequent posts in this thread have
> indulged in bikeshedding about whether to place a Facetweet button on the
> home page, while my remark was merely introductory to the main point of
> feeding our discussion not with opinions but with facts mined from visitor
> activity.
>
> Anyway... Can anyone from the CWG give us a peek into the analytical
> tooling currently built into Openstreetmap's Web presence, what we can
> expect from it, what the future holds and what contributions are most
> welcome ?
>
>
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