Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Greg Morgan wrote: > Let's compare Germany[8], the state of Montana[9] and the > United States[10]. We see that the size of Montana matches the > size of Germany. Yet, we see the population density is roughly > 82 million people in Germany to 1 million people in Montana. I see a lot of varied

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Marc Gemis
> Compare that with the AND import of the Netherlands where the data was > accurate and needed only minor fixing but where the bulk has just been > untouched (except for adding metadata) and is still the base of the map > in the Netherlands. I hope you are not referring to the building import nor

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Maarten Deen
On 2018-07-09 11:55, James wrote: From what I understand TIGER data is very poor quality to begin with and is at a federal level, this study doesnt take into account local GIS data(say a city or a province/state data) which often is more accurate. It seems fixated on one data import instance vs

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread James
>From what I understand TIGER data is very poor quality to begin with and is at a federal level, this study doesnt take into account local GIS data(say a city or a province/state data) which often is more accurate. It seems fixated on one data import instance vs many in statististics their sample

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, On 09.07.2018 10:35, Christoph Hormann wrote: > I am not really sure what you actually want to say here. You clearly > try to discredit the paper cited and you also attack Frederik for > linking to it. But if you truly think the paper is nonsense and you > know all this stuff so much

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Warin
On 09/07/18 18:35, Christoph Hormann wrote: And if you want to know about how to successfully map and build a local mapping community in a large and sparsely populated country and are fed up with the namby-pamby western Europeans who don't know a thing about this maybe talk to the Russians...

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
I find it fascinating how much effort you put into the attempt to discredit the paper this is about. But what you write is ultimately mostly a collection of unrelated trivialities and assumptions that do not actually manage to question the methodology used in the paper. There are aspects you

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-09 Thread Rory McCann
Hi Greg, I don't think anyone's claiming there should be the same amount of OSMers *per square kilometer*, but *per capita* instead. Rory On 09/07/18 02:21, Greg Morgan wrote: On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Frederik Ramm > wrote: Hi, today I was

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2018-07-08 Thread Greg Morgan
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > today I was pointed to a recent, open-access scientific paper called > "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: > Evidence from OpenStreetMap". This open-access paper is available here > >

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2017-10-29 Thread Clifford Snow
On Mon, Oct 9, 2017 at 4:07 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote: > > The analysis and the observations coming from it look pretty solid. I > am not fully convinced by the interpretation of the reasons lying > largely in contributors taking 'ownership' of the data they contribute. >

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2017-10-29 Thread Clifford Snow
Frederik, Abhishek Nagaraj, the author of the study you mentioned, presented [1] his findings at the SotM-US in Boulder. I had a chance to ask Abhishek about his research findings. What he said is that how the import is designed has a lot to due with how they impact subsequent edits. In the case

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2017-10-10 Thread Simon Poole
Am 10.10.2017 um 00:07 schrieb Christoph Hormann: > The analysis and the observations coming from it look pretty solid. I > am not fully convinced by the interpretation of the reasons lying > largely in contributors taking 'ownership' of the data they contribute. > This would in my eyes -

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2017-10-09 Thread Warin
On 10-Oct-17 09:07 AM, Christoph Hormann wrote: On Monday 09 October 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote: today I was pointed to a recent, open-access scientific paper called "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap". This open-access paper is

Re: [OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2017-10-09 Thread Christoph Hormann
On Monday 09 October 2017, Frederik Ramm wrote: > > today I was pointed to a recent, open-access scientific paper called > "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: > Evidence from OpenStreetMap". This open-access paper is available > here > >

[OSM-talk] Scientific paper on "Information Seeding"

2017-10-09 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, today I was pointed to a recent, open-access scientific paper called "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap". This open-access paper is available here https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3044581 In the context of