One of the discussion points on her diary entry was female hygiene products found in women's toilets. How is a man going to map that, without access to women's toilets ?
The real question for me is are men more likely going to map shop=car than shop=clothes;clothes=underwear/fashion/ ... (sorry for the stereotyping) will men map leisure=playground or amenity=pub ? will a roman catholic map a mosque ? will a non-dog owner map leisure=dog_park ? in short: will we map everything we see or do we map only our interests ? Furthermore, do we really see everything or do we only see (and map) things we are conditioned to ? This is not about buildings, addresses, roads and paths. They are pretty gender neutral I think. It's about POIs. regards m. On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:24 AM, Greg Morgan <dr.kludge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 3:45 AM, Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Dear OSM talk subscriber >> >> >> >> I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the >> University of Nottingham in the UK, 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. > > > Zoe, > > I believe that you need to go back to the drawing board. OSM is not about > gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. OSM is about people with > leisure time that are willing to spend to add nodes to a map. If I like to > add buidlings to the map, there is nothing about those nodes and one way > that compose the building that would discriminate or leave out information > based on gender, race, religion, or sexual orientation. > > This sounds like one of those surveys designed to damage OSM. > "data that is collected and subsequently what is available to location based > service providers" > That statement sound like you are performing research for a vendor that > cannot compete with OSM. > > Regards, > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us > _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
