Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-16 Thread mick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:41:40 + Nick Whitelegg wrote: > Obviously surveying us for marketing purposes is rather more iffy, and any > survey made for that purpose should be clearly warned as such. > > Nick > I was about to say these types of survey should result in the instigator being imme

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen wrote: > You might not be sick of nonsense survey authors requesting our > personal information to "study our project".  You might even be > tempted to reply and to fill in their survey. Whee

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Nick -Richard Fairhurst wrote: - To: talk@openstreetmap.org From: Richard Fairhurst Date: 15/03/2012 11:03AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM Serge Wroclawski wrote: > This may appear on its surface to be an odd question, especially > to someone in ac

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread yvecai
Le 15/03/2012 12:02, Richard Fairhurst a écrit : I think Dominik's request is entirely reasonable and I'm a little hacked off with the negative-verging-on-paranoid response here. If you don't like it, move on to the next thread and just don't answer the fricking questions. Yep, but I'm sure ther

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: > This may appear on its surface to be an odd question, especially > to someone in academia, but our community is predicated > on the premise of communal sharing. *ahem* Speak for yourself. I engage with OSM because I believe that open geographic data should exist, and t

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen wrote: > We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations > and obstacles to contribute > geographic information to > OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a > free editable map of the world. > > This

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:03 -0500, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Furthermore, I just took the survey and, even if the quality of the > survey leaves something to be desired, no personal information is > collected at all (which I define as any information that can be > related to me as an individual).

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Philippe Rieffel
Hi all, even though you might not find this to credible since you dont know me, I myself know the guy and know about his project, i can assure you that it is legitimate. It is backed up by our university institute. > If you do, please, first find evidence that you are responding to a > legitimate

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Philippe Rieffel
> Good points Richard, > in addition to this: I've been part of this community for a while (7 > years) and never heard about this people pretending to be from the > university of Münster, Germany. I already provided a link to their site, which is an official site from the institute for geoinformat

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Simone Cortesi wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:10, Richard Weait wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen > wrote: > >> We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations > >> and obstacles to contribute > >> geographic

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:10, Richard Weait wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen wrote: >> We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations >> and obstacles to contribute >> geographic information to >> OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative pro

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Mike N
On 3/14/2012 11:10 AM, Richard Weait wrote: You might not be sick of nonsense survey authors requesting our personal information to "study our project". You might even be tempted to reply and to fill in their survey. I noticed that the first survey redirected 40% of the users to something li

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread sabas88
2012/3/14 Kai Krueger > > > I think you are missing one of the most important motivations and reasons > to > contribute to OpenStreetMap. I.e. that you are using a software or gadget > based on OpenStreetMap and you want to improve your usage of this software > and not because you care about OSM.

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Kai Krueger
Dominik Wilmsen wrote > > We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations > and obstacles to contribute > geographic information I think you are missing one of the most important motivations and reasons to contribute to OpenStreetMap. I.e. that you are using a software or g

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen wrote: > We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations > and obstacles to contribute > geographic information to > OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a > free editable map of the world. Dear OS

[OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Dominik Wilmsen
We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations and obstacles to contribute geographic information to OpenStreetMap. OpenStreetMap is a collaborative project to create a free editable map of the world. This survey consists of up to eighteen questions and will take approximate