Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[SK53]

That was the work of Yuwei Lin and Manuela Schmidt:
https://www.slideshare.net/linyuwei/sot-m-femalemapperslinschmidt


On 18 September 2017 at 12:50, Philip Barnes <p...@trigpoint.me.uk> wrote:

> I have memories of this being in a talk at SOTM 2013 in Birmingham.
>
> Phil (trigpoint)
>
> On 18 September 2017 12:04:01 BST, Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk>
> wrote:
>>
>> So I guess you're looking for : https://vimeo.com/44870758
>> SheepCamp 2012, Monica Stephens
>>
>>
>> There's a pretty big list of articles and talks on the Diversity wiki page 
>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity
>>
>> Harry
>> --
>>
>> From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com>
>> To: Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com>
>> Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
>> Sent: Monday, 18 September 2017, 11:25
>> Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Dave
>>
>> Here is a link to the article you are talking about. The author is Monica 
>> Stephens. It may be tricky to access if you're not affiliated to an 
>> institution that subscribes to the journal. However, you should be able 
>> access the abstract. I haven't seen her presenting this work but with the 
>> info from the link you may be able to find something.
>>
>> https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-013-9492-z
>>
>>
>> Hope its what you were looking for.
>>
>> Zoe
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi
>>
>>> My Youtube history got cleared. Does anyone have a link the video of
>>>
>>a woman giving a lecture about contribution discrepancies in open
>>data projects. She used OSM brothels & childcare as examples.
>>
>>>
>>> Ta
>>> DaveF
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/09/2017 11:38, Zoe Gardner wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the 
>>>>> University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in 
>>>>> geospatial crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered 
>>>>> Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is 
>>>>> concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may 
>>>>> potentially affect the usability of the data that is collected and 
>>>>> subsequently what is available to location based service providers which 
>>>>> use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
>>>>> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male 
>>>>> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various 
>>>>> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the 
>>>>> map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored 
>>>>> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which 
>>>>> can then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of 
>>>>> this bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I 
>>>>> have therefore published an online survey designed to collect information 
>>>>> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as 
>>>>> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of 
>>>>> minutes to complete.
>>>>> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to 
>>>>> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take 
>>>>> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more 
>>>>> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small 
>>>>> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60 
>>>>> respondents will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
>>>>>
>>>>> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://nottingham.onlinesurve ys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
>>>>>
>>>>> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the 
>>>>> way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable new 
>>>>> strategie

Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Philip Barnes]

I have memories of this being in a talk at SOTM 2013 in Birmingham.

Phil (trigpoint) 

On 18 September 2017 12:04:01 BST, Harry Wood <m...@harrywood.co.uk> wrote:
>So I guess you're looking for : https://vimeo.com/44870758  
>SheepCamp 2012, Monica Stephens
>
>
>There's a pretty big list of articles and talks on the Diversity wiki
>page https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity
>
>Harry
>
>From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com>
>To: Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> 
>Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
>Sent: Monday, 18 September 2017, 11:25
>Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
>
>
>
>Hi Dave
>
>Here is a link to the article you are talking about. The author is
>Monica Stephens. It may be tricky to access if you're not affiliated to
>an institution that subscribes to the journal. However, you should be
>able access the abstract. I haven't seen her presenting this work but
>with the info from the link you may be able to find something. 
>
>https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-013-9492-z
>
>
>Hope its what you were looking for. 
>
>Zoe
>
>
>On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com>
>wrote:
>
>Hi
>>My Youtube history got cleared. Does anyone have a link the video of
>   a woman giving a lecture about contribution discrepancies in open
>   data projects. She used OSM brothels & childcare as examples.
>>
>>Ta
>>DaveF
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>On 04/09/2017 11:38, Zoe Gardner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
>>>> 
>>>>I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
>University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in
>geospatial crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
>Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is
>concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may
>potentially affect the usability of the data that is collected and
>subsequently what is available to location based service providers
>which use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
>>>>The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong
>male bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
>geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on
>the map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little
>explored or reported. By collecting information about contributors to
>OSM, which can then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the
>impacts of this bias might begin to be measured and therefore better
>understood. I have therefore published an online survey designed to
>collect information directly from OSM editors and I would like to
>invite as many of you as possible to participate. The survey is
>anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to complete. 
>>>>If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
>participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will
>take you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
>information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
>incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60
>respondents will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
>>>> 
>>>>To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>>>> 
>>>>https://nottingham.onlinesurve ys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
>>>> 
>>>>Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge
>about the way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will
>enable new strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in
>the geospatial information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this
>could strengthen the role played by platforms such as OSM in urban
>planning and sustainability and raise the profile of the important
>mapping work that you all do. 
>>>> 
>>>>In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my
>research activities or the project, please visit my University webpage
>(link below) and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the
>OSM messaging service. 
>>>> 
>>>>https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/e ngineering/people/zoe.gardner
>>>> 
>>>>Thank you
>>>>Zoe 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>  
>>>>This message and any attachment are intended solely for the
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Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Harry Wood]

So I guess you're looking for : https://vimeo.com/44870758  
SheepCamp 2012, Monica Stephens


There's a pretty big list of articles and talks on the Diversity wiki page 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Diversity

Harry

From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com>
To: Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> 
Cc: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, 18 September 2017, 11:25
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM



Hi Dave

Here is a link to the article you are talking about. The author is Monica 
Stephens. It may be tricky to access if you're not affiliated to an institution 
that subscribes to the journal. However, you should be able access the 
abstract. I haven't seen her presenting this work but with the info from the 
link you may be able to find something. 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-013-9492-z


Hope its what you were looking for. 

Zoe


On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Dave F <davefoxfa...@btinternet.com> wrote:

Hi
>My Youtube history got cleared. Does anyone have a link the video of
   a woman giving a lecture about contribution discrepancies in open
   data projects. She used OSM brothels & childcare as examples.
>
>Ta
>DaveF
>
>
>
>
>On 04/09/2017 11:38, Zoe Gardner wrote:
>
>
>>
>>
>>
>>Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
>>> 
>>>I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the 
>>>University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in geospatial 
>>>crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered Geographical 
>>>Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is concerned with 
>>>the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially affect the 
>>>usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is available 
>>>to location based service providers which use OSM as their primary 
>>>geospatial database.
>>>The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male 
>>>bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various 
>>>geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the 
>>>map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored or 
>>>reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can 
>>>then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this bias 
>>>might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have therefore 
>>>published an online survey designed to collect information directly from OSM 
>>>editors and I would like to invite as many of you as possible to 
>>>participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to 
>>>complete. 
>>>If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to 
>>>participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take 
>>>you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more 
>>>information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small 
>>>incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60 respondents 
>>>will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
>>> 
>>>To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>>> 
>>>https://nottingham.onlinesurve ys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
>>> 
>>>Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the 
>>>way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable new 
>>>strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial 
>>>information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the 
>>>role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability 
>>>and raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do. 
>>> 
>>>In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research 
>>>activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below) 
>>>and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging 
>>>service. 
>>> 
>>>https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/e ngineering/people/zoe.gardner
>>> 
>>>Thank you
>>>Zoe 
>>> 
>>> 
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Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Zoe Gardner]

Hi Dave

Here is a link to the article you are talking about. The author is Monica
Stephens. It may be tricky to access if you're not affiliated to an
institution that subscribes to the journal. However, you should be able
access the abstract. I haven't seen her presenting this work but with the
info from the link you may be able to find something.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10708-013-9492-z

Hope its what you were looking for.

Zoe

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 7:10 PM, Dave F  wrote:

> Hi
> My Youtube history got cleared. Does anyone have a link the video of a
> woman giving a lecture about contribution discrepancies in open data
> projects. She used OSM brothels & childcare as examples.
>
> Ta
> DaveF
>
>
>
> On 04/09/2017 11:38, Zoe Gardner wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
>
>
>
> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
> University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in geospatial
> crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered Geographical
> Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is concerned with
> the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially affect the
> usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is available
> to location based service providers which use OSM as their primary
> geospatial database.
>
> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
> map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can
> then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this
> bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have
> therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
> minutes to complete.
>
> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60 respondents
> will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
>
>
>
> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>
>
>
> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
>
>
>
> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
> way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable new
> strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial
> information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the
> role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability
> and raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
>
>
>
> In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
> activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below)
> and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging
> service.
>
>
>
> https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Zoe
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Paul]

Dear Zoe, all

I clicked yes to allow research on my edits.

I think this is a bit of an advance on the previous research, which seemed 
to rely on wiki pages, edits and discussion. 

My impression of the UK community is that they tend not to use the wiki as 
a source of guidance or rulings of any sort. This may be based on arrogance 
as the originators of the project, but it seems to me that the wiki has a 
rather German feel to it, as do some of the presets - it's best to 
interpret Craft as being the German version rather than the English one for 
example - rather more expansive and including a lot of mittelstand 
manufacturing.


It's quite possible that the quarterly projects counteract earlier biases. 
Because ther itch that got me into OSM in the first place was due to OS 
licensing stopping me putting base maps under my mapping of poverty issues, 
I've always been interested in mapping correlates of poverty. So, finding 
that postboxes are much more common in social housing areas than in private 
housing estates is interesting. 

Mapping childcare is also interesting to me, but difficult. The difficulty 
resides in the fact that childminders operating in their own home may not 
advertise, and so there is no surveyable sigh of a childcare premise. As I 
only use armchair sources to add value and check surveys, I'm not going to 
rely on a list of childminders when the house contains to sign that the 
list is right. The same applies to after school clubs. These are almost 
never advertised, while nurseries and pre-schools are. Social care for 
elderly people is usually advertised, but social care for children and 
various other groups is not. The food hygiene data may contain listings for 
these, which in some cases are suppressed (childrens homes, womens' 
refuges) for obvious reasons, or in other cases are not verifiable by any 
sign on the premises.


Mapping the FHRS data also enables pointing out some issues with other 
research. There's been widely promoted research showing that fast food 
outlets are more common in more deprived areas. Having mapped a selection 
of less and more deprived areas, I have a fairly strong supposition that 
the categorisation of food outlets differs systematically, with those in 
deprived areas having a higher chance of FHRS categorisation of 
Takeaway/sandwich shop, while in richer areas there is a greater chance of 
categorisation as Restaurant/cafe/canteen. Where delivery is by Deliveroo 
etc, the only practical difference is the existence of a sit-down option.


Paul Bivand

On Monday, 4 September 2017 11:38:48 BST, Zoe Gardner wrote:



Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber

 

I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute 
at the University of Nottingham, interested in participation 
biases in geospatial crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other 
Volunteered Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current 
research project is concerned with the way in which 
participation biases in OSM may potentially affect the usability 
of the data that is collected and subsequently what is available 
to location based service providers which use OSM as their 
primary geospatial database.


The project is motivated by recent research that has found a 
strong male bias in OSM participation. This has led to 
assertions that various geospatial knowledge could be under 
represented or poorly recorded on the map. However, the actual 
consequences of this bias remain little explored or reported. By 
collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can then 
be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of 
this bias might begin to be measured and therefore better 
understood. I have therefore published an online survey designed 
to collect information directly from OSM editors and I would 
like to invite as many of you as possible to participate. The 
survey is anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to complete.


If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would 
like to participate in the study, please click on the link 
below, which will take you to the Bristol Online Survey website 
where you will find more information and an opportunity to 
participate in the survey. As a small incentive, at the close of 
the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60 respondents will be drawn at 
random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.


 


To participate in the survey, click on the link below:

 


https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles

 

Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge 
about the way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps 
will enable new strategies to be developed to address any 
resulting voids in the geospatial information provided by 
amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the role played 
by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability 
and raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all 
do.


 

In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, 

Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Dave F]

Hi
My Youtube history got cleared. Does anyone have a link the video of a 
woman giving a lecture about contribution discrepancies in open data 
projects. She used OSM brothels & childcare as examples.


Ta
DaveF


On 04/09/2017 11:38, Zoe Gardner wrote:




Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber

I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the 
University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in 
geospatial crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered 
Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research project 
is concerned with the way in which participation biases in OSM may 
potentially affect the usability of the data that is collected and 
subsequently what is available to location based service providers 
which use OSM as their primary geospatial database.


The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong 
male bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that 
various geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly 
recorded on the map. However, the actual consequences of this bias 
remain little explored or reported. By collecting information about 
contributors to OSM, which can then be analyzed along with their 
editing patterns, the impacts of this bias might begin to be measured 
and therefore better understood. I have therefore published an online 
survey designed to collect information directly from OSM editors and 
I would like to invite as many of you as possible to participate. The 
survey is anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to complete.


If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to 
participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will 
take you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find 
more information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As 
a small incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 
60 respondents will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.


To participate in the survey, click on the link below:

https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles 



Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about 
the way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable 
new strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the 
geospatial information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this 
could strengthen the role played by platforms such as OSM in urban 
planning and sustainability and raise the profile of the important 
mapping work that you all do.


In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research 
activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link 
below) and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM 
messaging service.


https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner 



Thank you

Zoe

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Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Zoe Gardner]

Hi Andres and thanks for your support. I'm all for Open Access publishing
and when the time comes will endeavour to do this. Will keep the community
posted on this as well as the results. Best wishes, Zoe

On Fri, Sep 15, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Andres Muniz Piniella <
a75...@alumni.tecnun.es> wrote:

> Thank you Zoe,
> I think this is great! I am sure other openData projects would be
> interested in your results. I've done the survey, literally takes 30
> seconds or less,just as I like them. But you don't mention if your results
> will be published under a free culture licence. I have been a scientist
> during some time and I am now frustrated that some of my publications are
> behind a paywall.  It would be great if your data is shared under a
> compatible licence with OSM?
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 11:38 +0100, Zoe Gardner wrote:
>
>
>
> Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
>
>
>
> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
> University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in geospatial
> crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered Geographical
> Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is concerned with
> the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially affect the
> usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is available
> to location based service providers which use OSM as their primary
> geospatial database.
>
> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
> map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can
> then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this
> bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have
> therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
> minutes to complete.
>
> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60 respondents
> will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
>
>
>
> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>
>
>
> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
>
>
>
> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
> way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable new
> strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial
> information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the
> role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability
> and raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
>
>
>
> In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
> activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below)
> and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging
> service.
>
>
>
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Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Andres Muniz Piniella]

Thank you Zoe,
I think this is great! I am sure other openData projects would be
interested in your results. I've done the survey, literally takes 30
seconds or less,just as I like them. But you don't mention if your
results will be published under a free culture licence. I have been a
scientist during some time and I am now frustrated that some of my
publications are behind a paywall.  It would be great if your data is
shared under a compatible licence with OSM?
On Mon, 2017-09-04 at 11:38 +0100, Zoe Gardner wrote:
> 
> 
> > Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
> >  
> > I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at
> > the University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in
> > geospatial crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
> > Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My current research
> > project is concerned with the way in which participation biases in
> > OSM may potentially affect the usability of the data that is
> > collected and subsequently what is available to location based
> > service providers which use OSM as their primary geospatial
> > database.
> > The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong
> > male bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that
> > various geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly
> > recorded on the map. However, the actual consequences of this bias
> > remain little explored or reported. By collecting information about
> > contributors to OSM, which can then be analyzed along with their
> > editing patterns, the impacts of this bias might begin to be
> > measured and therefore better understood. I have therefore
> > published an online survey designed to collect information directly
> > from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
> > possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple
> > of minutes to complete.
> > If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like
> > to participate in the study, please click on the link below, which
> > will take you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will
> > find more information and an opportunity to participate in the
> > survey. As a small incentive, at the close of the survey in a few
> > weeks’ time, 60 respondents will be drawn at random to receive a
> > £15 Amazon voucher.
> >  
> > To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
> >  
> > https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
> >  
> > Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge
> > about the way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will
> > enable new strategies to be developed to address any resulting
> > voids in the geospatial information provided by amateur mappers. In
> > turn this could strengthen the role played by platforms such as OSM
> > in urban planning and sustainability and raise the profile of the
> > important mapping work that you all do.
> >  
> > In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my
> > research activities or the project, please visit my University
> > webpage (link below) and do not hesitate to get in touch directly
> > or via the OSM messaging service.
> >  
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Re: [Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Gregory]

Hi Zoe,
Thank you for having an interest in OpenStreetMap and letting us know on
this mailing list!

I hope you're aware of the big selection-bias by asking the demographics of
users that read the talk-gb mailing list. Others have tried to look at OSM
diversity in the past, and I'd (personally) be more interested in how
diversity results vary depending on how you get the information (e.g. who
you ask) or if they've been changing over time.


I'm also interested in what initial preparation you have done for
researching OpenStreetMap. I have 4 starting points I would recommend
(others my disagree or have others):
* Take a look at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Research and add your
name/focus to the list (go back again if/when you have a publication to
link to). I'm surprised Nottingham has nothing listed.
* Attend an OSM meetup or Missing Maps event (maybe both) to meet some of
the community in person. We don't bite, and many of us like to meet over
beer and/or cake.
* Edit the map, help out and make an improvement. Even if it's only adding
one missing shop or 5 house numbers. How can you study something with
millions of users if you don't look at how easy it is to join.
* Read Steve Coasts' The Book of OSM, and look for other sources or ask if
you think you need to know anything that gets mentioned but isn't explained.


I look forward to hearing how you get on and reading about some of your
outcomes.

All the best from Durham,
Gregory (LivingWithDragons).


On 4 September 2017 at 11:38, Zoe Gardner  wrote:

>
>
> Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
>
>
>
> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the
> University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in geospatial
> crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered Geographical
> Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is concerned with
> the way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially affect the
> usability of the data that is collected and subsequently what is available
> to location based service providers which use OSM as their primary
> geospatial database.
>
> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male
> bias in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various
> geospatial knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the
> map. However, the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored
> or reported. By collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can
> then be analyzed along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this
> bias might begin to be measured and therefore better understood. I have
> therefore published an online survey designed to collect information
> directly from OSM editors and I would like to invite as many of you as
> possible to participate. The survey is anonymous and takes a couple of
> minutes to complete.
>
> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to
> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take
> you to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more
> information and an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small
> incentive, at the close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60 respondents
> will be drawn at random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
>
>
>
> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
>
>
>
> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
>
>
>
> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the
> way participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable new
> strategies to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial
> information provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the
> role played by platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability
> and raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
>
>
>
> In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research
> activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below)
> and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging
> service.
>
>
>
> https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
>
>
>
> Thank you
>
> Zoe
>
>
>
>
>
>
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[Talk-GB] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

[Zoe Gardner]

> Dear OSM talk-gb subscriber
> 
>  
> 
> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the 
> University of Nottingham, interested in participation biases in geospatial 
> crowdsourced projects such as OSM and other Volunteered Geographical 
> Information (VGI) projects. My current research project is concerned with the 
> way in which participation biases in OSM may potentially affect the usability 
> of the data that is collected and subsequently what is available to location 
> based service providers which use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
> 
> The project is motivated by recent research that has found a strong male bias 
> in OSM participation. This has led to assertions that various geospatial 
> knowledge could be under represented or poorly recorded on the map. However, 
> the actual consequences of this bias remain little explored or reported. By 
> collecting information about contributors to OSM, which can then be analyzed 
> along with their editing patterns, the impacts of this bias might begin to be 
> measured and therefore better understood. I have therefore published an 
> online survey designed to collect information directly from OSM editors and I 
> would like to invite as many of you as possible to participate. The survey is 
> anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to complete.
> 
> If you are an OSM contributor and are interested in or would like to 
> participate in the study, please click on the link below, which will take you 
> to the Bristol Online Survey website where you will find more information and 
> an opportunity to participate in the survey. As a small incentive, at the 
> close of the survey in a few weeks’ time, 60 respondents will be drawn at 
> random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
> 
>  
> 
> To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
> 
>  
> 
> https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles 
> 
>  
> 
> Please do think about participating. It is hoped that knowledge about the way 
> participation biases impact on crowdsourced maps will enable new strategies 
> to be developed to address any resulting voids in the geospatial information 
> provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could strengthen the role played by 
> platforms such as OSM in urban planning and sustainability and raise the 
> profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
> 
>  
> 
> In the meantime, if you would like to know more about me, my research 
> activities or the project, please visit my University webpage (link below) 
> and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging service.
> 
>  
> 
> https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner 
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you
> 
> Zoe
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
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