Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-16 Thread Nick Whitelegg
-Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: - To: talk@openstreetmap.org From: Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net Date: 15/03/2012 11:03AM Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM Serge Wroclawski wrote: This may appear on its surface to be an odd question

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:57 AM, Dominik Wilmsen wilms...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-16 Thread mick
On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:41:40 + Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Obviously surveying us for marketing purposes is rather more iffy, and any survey made for that purpose should be clearly warned as such. Nick I was about to say these types of survey should result in the

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 14:03 -0500, Martijn van Exel wrote: 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).

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread Serge Wroclawski
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Serge Wroclawski wrote: This may appear on its surface to be an odd question, especially to someone in academia, but our community is predicated on the premise of communal sharing. *ahem* Speak for yourself. I engage with OSM because I believe that open geographic data should exist, and the

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-15 Thread yvecai
Le 15/03/2012 12:02, Richard Fairhurst a écrit : I think Dominik's request is entirely reasonable and I'm a little hacked off with the negative-verging-on-paranoid response here. If you don't like it, move on to the next thread and just don't answer the fricking questions. Yep, but I'm sure

[OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Dominik Wilmsen
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. This survey consists of up to eighteen questions and will take

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Richard Weait
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Kai Krueger
Dominik Wilmsen wrote We would like to invite you to participate in a survey on motivations and obstacles to contribute geographic information I think you are missing one of the most important motivations and reasons to contribute to OpenStreetMap. I.e. that you are using a software or

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread sabas88
2012/3/14 Kai Krueger kakrue...@gmail.com I think you are missing one of the most important motivations and reasons to contribute to OpenStreetMap. I.e. that you are using a software or gadget based on OpenStreetMap and you want to improve your usage of this software and not because you

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Mike N
On 3/14/2012 11:10 AM, Richard Weait wrote: 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. I noticed that the first survey redirected 40% of the users to something

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Simone Cortesi
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.

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Martijn van Exel
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

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Philippe Rieffel
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. I already provided a link to their site, which is an official site from the institute for

Re: [OSM-talk] Survey about Incentives to contribute to OSM

2012-03-14 Thread Philippe Rieffel
Hi all, even though you might not find this to credible since you dont know me, I myself know the guy and know about his project, i can assure you that it is legitimate. It is backed up by our university institute. If you do, please, first find evidence that you are responding to a legitimate