On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:25 PM, Simone Cortesi <sim...@cortesi.com> wrote:
> 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. > What's with the hostility? Surely the OP could have provided some more context - a quick google search turned up this page from within the Uni Münster domain[1]. Anyone wanting to find out about the legitimacy of OP's claims could have found that in 10 seconds. Furthermore, I just took the survey and, even if the quality of the survey leaves something to be desired, no personal information is collected at all (which I define as any information that can be related to me as an individual). [1] http://swsl.uni-muenster.de/2012/03/survey-on-motivations-to-contribute-to-openstreetmap-please-distribute-and-participate/ -- martijn van exel geospatial omnivore 1109 1st ave #2 salt lake city, ut 84103 801-550-5815 http://oegeo.wordpress.com
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