Hi Andy,
thanks for your feedback, your points and links are very useful.
As for the survey, it is only a part of my current work on OSM. The
results of this survey will be coupled with an extensive quantitative
analysis of pattern of changes and updates all around the world in OSM.
I've already some interesting preliminary results from the data. I'll
share with you soon some early results so to have also your feedback.
Apologise again for my off-topic thread.
Cheers,
Giovanni
On 30/04/2015 20:35, SomeoneElse wrote:
(apologies for a reply fairly off-topic for the newbies list - I'm
just replying to where it was posted)
On 29/04/2015 11:19, Giovanni Quattrone wrote:
My name is Giovanni and I'm a researcher at University College
London, UK.
I'm specialised in crowdsourcing research and in the past have done
many studies of OpenStreetMap.
OK - presumably you're aware of the discussion of previous research
such as here(1) and here(2)? I'm assuming you're familiar with the
latter one because it's by someone you cite in one of your linked
papers... There have been some fairly poorly-based questionnaires in
the past, and while I'm sure that yours isn't like that at all,
perhaps some of the questions could do with a bit more attention to
detail? For example, the "which editor" question ignores mobile
editors completely and also ignores Potlatch 2, which new signups on
IE currently get by default.
I'm currently conducting a new OpenStreetMap study, and I'm asking
for your help. I'm trying to assess the extent to which information
on OSM is ever maintained or updated. Such knowledge helps understand
how to best support the OSM community with appropriate tools.
Presumably the survey part is to obtain an insight into mappers'
motiviations and you'll actually get details on what gets maintained
and what doesn't by looking at the lifecycle of data in OSM - perhaps
grab some data from an old post-licence-change planet file and look at
what's changed in selected areas there - what got updated, what got
deleted and redrawn, and what changeset comments in which editors were
used by mappers along the way?
...
Your answers to the questionnaire will be stored securely and they
will be used only for research purposes.
Confidentiality and anonymity will be maintained and it will not be
possible to identify you in any way.
Obviously an answer isn't anonymous if users link to a changeset of
theirs (as I did) - presumably you're suggesting that people don't do
that!
Let me know if, after having completed the survey, you would like to
receive the outcomes of my research, I will be more than happy to
share them with you once ready.
I'd have thought that that'd be worth sharing in something like an OSM
diary entry or by a mail to the main "talk" list perhaps? I'd
certainly be interested in the results - I suspect that the results
will be very different in some OSM communities to others and would be
interested in how you think things vary globally (I have a gut feel,
based on some data, for some areas in GB but haven't tried to come up
with any hard statistics).
Cheers,
Andy
(1)
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2015-March/thread.html#72232
(2)
https://povesham.wordpress.com/2011/07/16/observing-from-afar-or-joining-the-action-osm-and-giscience-research/
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