On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 16:10, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen <wilms...@gmail.com> 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 OSM contributors, and survey authors, > > 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. > > If you do, please, first find evidence that you are responding to a > legitimate survey from an accredited research institution. And that > it has appropriate oversight and privacy guidelines. > > Not everybody who uses "surveys" to collect personal information is > doing so in your best interest. In fact, they could not possibly be > doing so. > > Two surveys, broadcast on our networks within a week? This stinks of > a new trend.
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. A little bit of introduction and behind the scene information might help to clear up some fog. Thanks, Simone. -- -S _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
