Re: [Talk-ca] About OpenStreetMap
I really don't have time to do your homework for you, but maybe someone on talk-ca@ or newbies@ will help you. Best Steve On 6 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Nyaladzani Nkhwanana wrote: Hi Steve, My name is Nyaladzani Nkhwanana, a Masters student at the university of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. I am currently undertaking a research (Thesis) on assessing credibility on volunteered geographic information. Im interested in how openstreetmap works, e.g. The trust algorithms you use ( I see you have classes of users, administrators, to new users), I want to know how this rankings are archieved. Also I am interested in how you validate the contributed data, who has the final say and also how you get to ban users contributing wrong information. Please if you can prepare this in a document that will be great, thanks. Basically I am a fan of OpenStreetMap work, Im a citizen of Botswana, Southern Africa. If you can check it out you will find that there is very little contributed there. As I complete my studies end of this year I hope to be of assist for the benefit of users back home. -- Nyaladzani Jairo Nkhwanana 807 Burden Street Fredericton, NB E3B 4C5 Canada Home: (+1506) 455 0508 Office: (+1506) 447 3259 Mobile (+1506) 292 5214 ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] About OpenStreetMap
On 6 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Nyaladzani Nkhwanana wrote: Hi Steve, My name is Nyaladzani Nkhwanana, a Masters student at the university of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. I am currently undertaking a research (Thesis) on assessing credibility on volunteered geographic information. Im interested in how openstreetmap works, e.g. The trust algorithms you use ( I see you have classes of users, administrators, to new users), I want to know how this rankings are archieved. Also I am interested in how you validate the contributed data, who has the final say and also how you get to ban users contributing wrong information. Please if you can prepare this in a document that will be great, thanks. Basically I am a fan of OpenStreetMap work, Im a citizen of Botswana, Southern Africa. If you can check it out you will find that there is very little contributed there. As I complete my studies end of this year I hope to be of assist for the benefit of users back home. Dear Nyaladzani Nkhwanana, I'm an OpenStreetMap enthusiast in Toronto and I'd be pleased to discuss this with you in detail on your next trip to Toronto. In short, I think that you are wrong about OpenStreetMap user classes and the existence of a trust algorithm. All OpenStreetMap data contributors are equal. Some contributors perform additional functions that are not shared, like administration of mailing lists and servers. Those tasks require an additional level of trust. Those tasks are unrelated to their data contributions. Data is validated by the community and problems with the data can be raised by any community member. I'm unaware of any formal organization to this data validation. It happens according to the interest and available effort of individual contributors. In OpenStreetMap we like to think that the final say is held by what is observed at the location. If a street sign is mis-spelled on the sign, that mis-spelling should be deliberately placed in the OSM data base. Our contributors in Germany did this, then reported the mis-spellings and other anomalies to the municipality, who then corrected the signs. Very few users have been banned from OpenStreetMap. While not a hard-and-fast policy, what has happened in past is this. When unusual edits are noticed by a community member, they can contact the editor by email and discuss the unusual edit. This generally leads to a discussion of what was intended, and often a newer user is informed of accepted practises in OpenStreetMap. Most unusual edits are this sort of accident, rather than something unsavoury. Enforcement is provided in the form of peer information. Issues that are not resolved satisfactorily by discussion between community members can be referred to the OpenStreetMap Foundation for further action. The Foundation members can recommend banning if appropriate. You should stay in touch with the OSM mailing lists when you start sharing your enthusiasm for OpenStreetMap when you get back home. In the interim, why don't you meet with some other local mappers at UNB for a mapping party? You'll all learn very quickly from each other, and enjoy your mapping together. It looks like you'll be able to make very noticeable contributions in Fredericton, and even just around campus. Best regards, Richard ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-newbies] About OpenStreetMap
2009/1/9 SteveC st...@asklater.com: I really don't have time to do your homework for you, but maybe someone on talk-ca@ or newbies@ will help you. Best Steve On 6 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Nyaladzani Nkhwanana wrote: Hi Steve, My name is Nyaladzani Nkhwanana, a Masters student at the university of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. I am currently undertaking a research (Thesis) on assessing credibility on volunteered geographic information. Im interested in how openstreetmap works, e.g. The trust algorithms you use ( I see you have classes of users, administrators, to new users), I want to know how this rankings are archieved. We have nobody that specifically administers the data, we have server administrators who handle the servers. Also I am interested in how you validate the contributed data, who has the final say and also how you get to ban users contributing wrong information. Please if you can prepare this in a document that will be great, thanks. Those who know the area validate contributions, if there's nobody in the area, the vandalism may go unnoticed. We essentially have no methods for detection yet, but we've not yet particularly required them - there have been a couple of examples in the UK, but both have been spotted relatively quickly. There's some quite interesting stuff in the mailing list archives - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Alists.openstreetmap.org+vandalismie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficialclient=firefox-a There is no policy yet (as far as I know) for banning users. I'm guessing it's handled on a case by case basis, I am also not aware for account bans due to map vandalism, there have been some account deletions of those that purposefully spam the user diaries though. Basically I am a fan of OpenStreetMap work, Im a citizen of Botswana, Southern Africa. If you can check it out you will find that there is very little contributed there. As I complete my studies end of this year I hope to be of assist for the benefit of users back home. -- Nyaladzani Jairo Nkhwanana 807 Burden Street Fredericton, NB E3B 4C5 Canada Home: (+1506) 455 0508 Office: (+1506) 447 3259 Mobile (+1506) 292 5214 ___ newbies mailing list newb...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/newbies -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
[Talk-ca] NHN lake of the woods
Hi It looks like the NHN data is flawed because of the fact that the Lake of the Woods passes through the US. I will continue with mapping as normal. I notice that I am not the only one mapping the lake. I pay much more attention to detail than others. Is that okay? Sam __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
