Hello Clifford & Suzan,

The survey is probably not a bad idea.

I just looked at this list: http://tools.neis-one.org/tmp/20150425-20150505_Nepal_NewContributorsOSM.txt , which contains 3175 records.  I have cross tabulated the number of mapping days against the day of the first edit for all records for the number of change sets.  As you can see, 76% stick with it for one day and only 16% hang in for the second day.  Sorry about the table formatting, it didn't survive the pasting very well summation point

Of course, there could be many reasons for this attrition.  Busy people may feel that they have done their duty after one day, etc.

Count of num_changesmapping_days
first_edit12 345 6789 10Grand Total
25-Apr-156419 611 293
26-Apr-1540363 21114 1211 507
27-Apr-1544288 24147 31 579
28-Apr-1533679 30214 23 475
29-Apr-1541791 2575 2 547
30-Apr-1528196 17134 1 412
1-May-1525237 118 308
2-May-157810 7 95
3-May-156226 2 90
4-May-1569 69
Grand Total2,404509143 75259 5212 3,175

2,404509 1437525 9521 23,175
75.7%16.0% 4.5%2.4%0.8% 0.3%0.2%0.1% 0.0%0.1%

Anyway, I would be happy to assist with the survey, at least part time.  I have done a little bit of serving in the past.  The sample question areas look like a good starting point.  The open/comment type questions are good that they can be an information gold mine but do require a lot of manual analysis.

Not sure if this is pertinent but I have been advised to host surveys and other sensitive material outside of the United States as data may be susceptible to seizure under their Patriot Act.  Not sure if this is an issue, the Patriot Act may expire in June I believe.

        Thanks for getting this idea going, Cheers . . . . . . . . Spring Harrison





At 09-05-2015 16:55 Saturday, Clifford Snow wrote:

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Suzan Reed <[email protected]> wrote:
I am happy to volunteer to put a survey together for sending soon. I have the expertise and time. The data could render extremely important and valuable information, but it needs to be done in a timely manner in my experience. Who would be on the team?


I would be happy to assist with the survey. However, one of the obstacles is how to contact the new mappers. I believe we can get the user names that would be included in a survey, but how do we contact them? The only way I know is to send each one a separate message. With the number of people to survey that seems overwhelming.Â

At one time I did create an AWS instance of Limesurvey [1], an open source survey software. With Linesurvey a fairly sophisticated survey can be created. Plus it handles presenting the survey in multiple languages.Â

Clifford

[1]Â https ://www.limesurvey.org/en/
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