On Saturday 23 August 2014, john whelan wrote: > Looking at what they are doing I'd say the information being dug out > will be of value to the OSM community and help us understand a little > more about the people who add value to the maps. It might even help > us on the retention rate and bring the experience of the average > mapper up a little. It's also being done fairly professionally and > running something like this properly costs money, at least its not > OSM money.
So the aims justify the means? Sorry - but no, if you cannot do something in a decent manner you can't do it at all. > How would you suggest he obtained a large enough random sample? With voluntary participation you can't, no matter what you do. That's why a census generally is not voluntary. -- Christoph Hormann http://www.imagico.de/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk