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 place to
verify that data.

k.


> 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 up with a way to make POI collection a competition or game?
> Think foursquare/gowalla's "checkins" mixed in with something like
> http://www.poi-factory.com/. It could be generic enough to encompass any
> sort of POI information (from park benches to trees to mailboxes). Each
> "set" of data could have some sort of "expected information": collection
> times and color might be two things expected for every mailbox, species and
> approx_age might be expected things for every tree.
>
> A user could join a particular "competition" (i.e. the "tree competition"
> or "mailbox competition") and attempt to gather as much data as possible to
> get points and fame (badges and maybe cool schwag ("I collected 10,000 park
> benches and all I got was this lousy t-shirt") from OSM). If data is
> incorrect, the user could move it or mark it as bad (removing fractional
> points from the original poster for putting in bad data?).
>
> A user could create a competition if they don't see one they want.
>
> Maybe the competitions are based on a locale and/or time? "The person with
> the most bus stops collected in Chicago over the next 10 days wins a prize."
> or something.
>
> Any thoughts? Critiques?
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk@openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> talk mailing list
> talk@openstreetmap.org
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
>
>


-- 
http://blogs.linux.ie/kenguest/
_______________________________________________
talk mailing list
talk@openstreetmap.org
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Reply via email to