I really don't have time to do your homework for you, but maybe someone on talk-ca@ or newbies@ will help you.
Best Steve On 6 Jan 2009, at 18:33, Nyaladzani Nkhwanana wrote: > Hi Steve, > > My name is Nyaladzani Nkhwanana, a Masters student at the university > of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. I am currently undertaking a > research (Thesis) on assessing credibility on volunteered geographic > information. Im interested in how openstreetmap works, e.g. The > trust algorithms you use ( I see you have classes of users, > administrators, to new users), I want to know how this rankings are > archieved. > Also I am interested in how you validate the contributed data, who > has the final say and also how you get to ban users contributing > wrong information. Please if you can prepare this in a document that > will be great, thanks. > > Basically I am a fan of OpenStreetMap work, Im a citizen of > Botswana, Southern Africa. If you can check it out you will find > that there is very little contributed there. As I complete my > studies end of this year I hope to be of assist for the benefit of > users back home. > > -- > Nyaladzani Jairo Nkhwanana > 807 Burden Street > Fredericton, NB > E3B 4C5 > Canada > Home: (+1506) 455 0508 > Office: (+1506) 447 3259 > Mobile (+1506) 292 5214 _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
