Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Ken Guest k...@linux.ie wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk wrote: I fear that it would just be gamed and bad data would be entered instead. That too would be my main worry - unless there was a procedure in

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread simon
creating competition in this way can be disruptive to the community, by encouraging people to work in isolation, amongst other things Would an approach be to get a community of people working on a particular area and highlight the improvement made as a result? For example there has been talk

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Robin Paulson
On 11 June 2010 08:34, Ian Dees ian.d...@gmail.com wrote: I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... What if we came up with a way to make POI collection a competition or game? Think

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Ken Guest
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:28 PM, Shaun McDonald sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.ukwrote: I fear that it would just be gamed and bad data would be entered instead. That too would be my main worry - unless there was a procedure in place to verify that data. k. Shaun On 10 Jun 2010, at 21:34, Ian

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Shaun McDonald
I fear that it would just be gamed and bad data would be entered instead. Shaun On 10 Jun 2010, at 21:34, Ian Dees wrote: I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... What if we came

[OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Ian Dees
I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... What if we came up with a way to make POI collection a competition or game? Think foursquare/gowalla's checkins mixed in with something like

Re: [OSM-talk] POI Collection as a Competition

2010-06-10 Thread Robin Paulson
On 11 June 2010 11:04, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Let's forget the prizes for now, even if they could some how be turned into a positive.  What about the mechanism? How do we create a super easy way for folks with focused interests to participate in OSM?  Say a super postbox