We need to think of some simple tasks for new users to complete, and we'll put them together over on this wiki page. Add a street?
This sort of study will be interesting to see. Adding a street today must be daunting for the newbie. Despite the "lure of the open road" - blank areas where roads from new subdivisions have never been created, I've never seen a new user pop up and add the streets from their own subdivision. But I have seen people pop up and make single corrections to that evil, "community-killing TIGER import" - corrections such as breaking a through street that was never connected, or aligning a road. People are now aware of missing streets since the navigation apps use OSM; I see many Skobbler reports of missing streets. Hopefully the end result of this study is that we'll understand how to engage the newbies to help contribute. Other than that, the TIGER 2010 data will provide most of the missing streets in the US, and entered by the core users in the US.
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