[OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

[Christoph Hormann]

I find it fascinating how much effort you put into the attempt to 
discredit the paper this is about.

But what you write is ultimately mostly a collection of unrelated 
trivialities and assumptions that do not actually manage to question 
the methodology used in the paper.  There are aspects you can 
rightfully criticize about the reasearch work documented in the paper 
but to do that you would need to look deeper into what the author 
actually did instead of musing about the motivation for plane trips 
across the US.

I am not really sure what you actually want to say here.  You clearly 
try to discredit the paper cited and you also attack Frederik for 
linking to it.  But if you truly think the paper is nonsense and you 
know all this stuff so much better why don't you write your own paper 
pointing out the errors and explaining how things really are?

Just criticizing people is cheap if you don't expose yourself by making 
your own analysis and your own statements others can review and argue 
about.

The only statement beyond the superficial criticism in that regard i can 
read from what you write is: Mapping in the US is hard.  That is of 
course by definition a subjective statement so no one will seriously be 
able to argue with you about that.

And if you want to know about how to successfully map and build a local 
mapping community in a large and sparsely populated country and are fed 
up with the namby-pamby western Europeans who don't know a thing about 
this maybe talk to the Russians...

-- 
Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/