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 gadget based on OpenStreetMap and you want to improve your usage of this software and not because you care about OSM. E.g. I came across OpenStreetMap because I was looking for an offline map application for my old feature phone. GpsMid was the only app that I could find that even came close to what I needed. It uses OpenStreetMap. The data of London was decent but not perfect back then and so in order to improve my own usage of GpsMid, I had to improve OpenStreetMap data. I have stuck with the project ever since. Similarly, the biggest spike ever of weekly first time mappers was in mid September 2009, the week in which Monopoly City Streets was launched. I.e. a lot of people who had never heard of OpenStreetMap wanted to play Monopoly City Streets and found that they couldn't buy their own street in the game. They were then told (even though probably not true as Monopoly City Streets didn't incorporate diffs) that if they wanted to buy their street, they had to add the road to OpenStreetMap first as that is what Monopoly City Streets was based on. So a lot of people did. Many of them might not have really cared for OpenStreetMap as such, just for their application, i.e. the game they were playing. Likewise I would guess with things like Sat-Nav apps such as Skobbler or Mapfactor Free, or with FourSquare and Apple iPhoto users. I think question 7 and possibly 15 (or the survey in general) doesn't really cover this important situation well. Kai -- View this message in context: http://gis.19327.n5.nabble.com/Survey-about-Incentives-to-contribute-to-OSM-tp5564595p5565324.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
