My feeling is OpenStreetMap has two sides. The first is local adding
local knowledge to the map. The other I'll call armchair mapping. When
Stats Canada did the pilot it tapped the local Ottawa mappers who meet
physically.
I would agree that amongst mappers with the most edits there is a high
number of retired people and those with disabilities involved and these
may not be visible. Tapping them for groups coming together to map can
be a problem.
In my view typically the most productive mappers are those with a
special interest. Adding WiFi access or churches for example or even a
change of street name.
We also have a number of teachers who would like to use OSM and in
particular the building project to involve their students. We get a
fair amount of data added but the quality can be questionable. HOT and
others I think have found that using a restricted set of tasks and tags
works best.
My personal feeling is giving feedback is useful. So the challenge for
the building project is how to engage people. What are the most useful
tags to add?
I'd suggest some sort of web site giving the number of buildings mapped
and the tags that have been added by city. Graphs with time as one axis
would be nice.
Certainly certain activities are more complex than others. Importing
buildings is not a task I'd suggest for teenage mapper with twenty
minutes experience. Breaking out the tasks is a task in itself and for
4 million buildings I think it could benefit from a project plan.
I think we've seen with the 2020 project that just saying it would be
nice to have by is not really enough to sustain it but who would do it
I'm not sure.
Cheerio John
Jonathan Brown wrote on 2018-11-02 11:28 AM:
Apropos the ongoing efforts to educate new volunteers, the discussion
section of this research paper on enablers and barriers may be useful
https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0747563216305295/1-s2.0-S0747563216305295-main.pdf?_tid=31ea73b8-7cb4-4eca-acc4-062aa79c278b&acdnat=1541171937_ecb61791a7d798a1491503b71f69b0ab
Jonathan
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