Follks,
It would be nice if we could get some
confirmation that this is a real research
projects being done by an actual researcher at
Nottingham. If it is legit, why is the return
email address from Gmail rather than the university?
Is there some mechanism that we can set
up to confirm that the research is for real, such
as running it through the US board first? I don't
mind contributing to a survey. I just want to be sure it is for real.
Charlotte
From: Zoe Gardner <zoegardn...@gmail.com>
To: talk-us@openstreetmap.org ...snip... talk...@openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM
Dear OSM talk subscriber
I am a Research Fellow in the Nottingham
Geospatial Institute at the University of
Nottingham in the UK, interested in
participation biases in geospatial crowd-sourced
projects such as OSM and other Volunteered
Geographical Information (VGI) projects. My
current research project is concerned with the
way in which participation biases in OSM may
potentially affect the usability of the data
that is collected and subsequently what is
available to location-based service providers
that use OSM as their primary geospatial database.
The project is motivated by recent research that
has found a strong male bias in OSM
participation. This has led to assertions that
various geospatial knowledge could be under
represented or poorly recorded on the map.
However, the actual consequences of this bias
remain little explored or reported. By
collecting information about contributors to
OSM, which can then be analyzed along with their
editing patterns, the impacts of this bias might
begin to be measured and therefore better
understood. I have therefore published an online
survey designed to collect information directly
from OSM editors and I would like to invite as
many of you as possible to participate. The
survey is anonymous and takes a couple of minutes to complete.
If you are an OSM contributor and are interested
in or would like to participate in the study,
please click on the link below, which will take
you to the Bristol Online Survey website where
you will find more information and an
opportunity to participate in the survey. As a
small incentive, at the close of the survey in a
few weeks' time, 60 respondents will be drawn at
random to receive a £15 Amazon voucher.
To participate in the survey, click on the link below:
<https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles>https://nottingham.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/osm-user-profiles
Please do think about participating. It is hoped
that knowledge about the way participation
biases impact on crowd-sourced maps will enable
new strategies to be developed to address any
resulting voids in the geospatial information
provided by amateur mappers. In turn this could
strengthen the role played by platforms such as
OSM in urban planning and sustainability, and
could raise the profile of the important mapping work that you all do.
In the meantime, if you would like to know more
about me, my research activities or the project,
please visit my University webpage (link below)
and do not hesitate to get in touch directly or via the OSM messaging service.
<https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner>https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/engineering/people/zoe.gardner
Thank you
Zoe
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