I fear that it would just be gamed and bad data would be entered instead. Shaun
On 10 Jun 2010, at 21:34, Ian Dees wrote: > I posted this idea as an off-topic message in a thread about the post office > in talk-us, but I thought it might get more interest over here on t...@... > > What if we came up with a way to make POI collection a competition or game? > Think foursquare/gowalla's "checkins" mixed in with something like > http://www.poi-factory.com/. It could be generic enough to encompass any sort > of POI information (from park benches to trees to mailboxes). Each "set" of > data could have some sort of "expected information": collection times and > color might be two things expected for every mailbox, species and approx_age > might be expected things for every tree. > > A user could join a particular "competition" (i.e. the "tree competition" or > "mailbox competition") and attempt to gather as much data as possible to get > points and fame (badges and maybe cool schwag ("I collected 10,000 park > benches and all I got was this lousy t-shirt") from OSM). If data is > incorrect, the user could move it or mark it as bad (removing fractional > points from the original poster for putting in bad data?). > > A user could create a competition if they don't see one they want. > > Maybe the competitions are based on a locale and/or time? "The person with > the most bus stops collected in Chicago over the next 10 days wins a prize." > or something. > > Any thoughts? Critiques? > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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