(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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