On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 8:02 AM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > * Once in some very small sample size (perhaps between 1 in 1,000 and 1 in > 10,000 signups) a popup appears > * The popup says something like "Hi! We'd really like to know why you came > to OSM" and they say simply why. This is open ended on purpose so we catch > as many things as we can, not just what we're looking for, but things we > won't expect. > * They're offered to record a short (10 minute max) screencast of them > trying to achieve whatever it is (like look at a map, find OSMers, add a PoI > and so on) > * That screencast is analyzed in aggregate with many others by Bolt | > Peters with all their expertise in doing this stuff, and they come back with > a set of findings. >
Won't this skew our answers a little bit? Users will have to download or install some sort of screen capturing application and answer this question. If I were a novice OSM user and saw this request *and* had to figure out Potlatch or JOSM, I would be even more inclined to back out of fixing the location of the ice cream stand. > What should our goals be? (General UX? How good/bad signup is? How good/bad > editing is? How is it finding info?) > How often should we ask a signup for feedback? (the more the better but we > can only look at so many) > How can we include more crowd source feedback? (I think of asking random > signups for feedback as crowdsourcing it) > What else should we think about? > I think editing of various kinds should be looked at: anywhere from simple POI adding/changing (how do they figure out how to describe the POI?) to adding/changing a road network (how do they decide what kind of road it is?). Thanks for getting this rolling Steve, I think it'll help! -Ian
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