[OSM-talk] spammy "survey" questions.

[Cristian Consonni]

Hi Gianfranco,

2015-03-03 8:55 GMT+01:00 gianfranco gliozzo <gfremail at gmail.com>:
> What if we ask not only to publish as open access the resulting work but
> also to give back to the community all raw material?
> We can create a section of the wiki to support researchers with a list of
> all old publications and surveys.
> Once they got involved in OSM we can unlock all previous surveys. I mean all
> answers and questions. Researchers can then reuse, improve them for their
> personal research objectives or update the older ones but they will not ask
> the same basic questions again and again.

I believe that there may be privacy concerns to sharing raw data, so
this should be evaluated case by case and/or data should be
anonimized. Still, I think that the best way to deal with this is to
have the OSM Foundation adopt a specific policy.

C