Talk:Research

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Feel free to drop a line here or to contact myself --!i! 10:42, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

OpenRouteService

Since the beginning of 2010 the projekt ist located at GIScience university of Heidelberg. This includes the main personal Prof. Zipf and Pascal Neis. Please check the OpenRouteService site for reference (bottom left corner).

Done --!i! 10:42, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

Page reorg around subject matter?

Does anyone have any objection to reordering this page by subject matter?

There is a ton (!) of valuable information here, but organizing research studies by country of origin doesn't seem to make much sense to me. Then again, I could be missing something.

Jeffmeyer 02:52, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Personally I'm ok with the current situation, as it allows me to find researches from my Country (esp. for analyses on OSM quality important) and if I'm looking for a single aspect, I can search the page for specific terms (e.g. motivation, community to find anything about social aspects).
But if you say it will be an improvement to do a reorganisation and you wan't to do the job, this isn't a problem for me :) --!i! 08:44, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

A problem with organizing around subject matter would be the lack of an universal classification. Organizing by the research institution's location is easily done in comparison. Do you have a suggestion for a classification of the research topics? --Tordanik 13:06, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

See Research#By subject. Fgnievinski (talk) 16:08, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Today I see the big problem, that dublication causes incosistency between both lists. I'm not sure if it's a help to the reader, if he can't be sure that he has a complete overview :/ --!i! 15:56, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

I see the problem, two incomplete lists are clearly not an ideal situation.I feel now that, as long as there is no automatic sync, this would be an inevitable consequence of creating a second classification. --Tordanik 17:57, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

So what to do? Manual merge again? (reviewing the edits after the splitup)?

If there is no different oppinion, I will start a merge in a few weeks, so we will get a unique non redundand list again. --!i! 13:59, 6 January 2014 (UTC)

After 2 years I removed the section, as it wasn't in wide use and hardly out of sync with the list 'by geography'. If we wish to implement another view of the projects, I guess we need better toolsupport for example semantic mediawiki or similar. --!i! 18:24, 3 January 2015 (UTC)

New publications on OSM

Dear maintainers of this list, we would like to make you aware of the following publications. Will you also have the possibility to add them to wikidata?

• "An analysis of the spatial and temporal distribution of large‐scale data production events in OpenStreetMap" Grinberger, A.Y., Schott, M., Raifer, M. & Zipf, A. - 2021-03-19 - https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12746
  Organized mapping activities within OpenStreetMap frequently lead to the production of massive amounts of data over a short period. In this article we utilize a novel procedure to identify such large‐scale data production events in the history of OpenStreetMap and analyze their patterns. We find that events account for a significant share of OpenStreetMap data and that organizational practices have shifted over time towards local knowledge‐based events and well‐organized data imports. However, regions in the “Global South” remain dependent on remote mapping events, pointing to uneven geographies of representation. We also find that events are frequently followed by periods of increased activity, with the exact nature of effects depending on contextual elements such as previous events. These findings portray organized activities as a significant and unique component which requires consideration when using OpenStreetMap data and analyzing their quality.

• "The Impact of Community Happenings in OpenStreetMap — Establishing a Framework for Online Community Member Activity Analyses" Schott, M, Grinberger, A.Y., Lautenbach, S. & Zipf, A. - 2021-03-14 - https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi10030164
  The collaborative nature of activities in Web 2.0 projects leads to the formation of online communities. To reinforce this community, these projects often rely on happenings centred around data creation and curation activities. We suggest an integrated framework to directly assess online community member performance in a quantitative manner and applied it to the case study of OpenStreetMap. A set of mappers who participated in both field and remote mapping-related happenings was identified. To measure the effects of happenings, we computed attributes characterising the mappers’ contribution behaviour before and after the happenings and tested for significant impacts in relation to a control group. Results showed that newcomers to OpenStreetMap adopted a contribution behaviour similar to the contribution behaviour typical for the respective happening they attended: When contributing after the happening, newcomers who attended a remote mapping event tended to concentrate on creating new data with lower quality but high quantity in places foreign to their home region; newcomers who attended a field mapping event updated and enhanced existing local data with high accuracy. The behaviour of advanced mappers stayed largely unaffected by happenings. Unfortunately, our results did not reveal a positive effect on the community integration of newcomers through happenings.

-- —Preceding unsigned comment added by MomoMilkiway (talk • contribs) 12:04, 22 March 2021‎

Note that in general OpenStreetMap and Wikidata are completely separate projects, though similar in some aspects Mateusz Konieczny (talk) 15:58, 22 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, thank you for stressing this. I was struggling to understand this sentence in the article: If you know of a paper about OSM that is not yet included in Wikidata, please drop a note (or a list!) on the talk page of this page., that's why I asked. It might need rephrasing. Does your answer imply that I should add the articles to wikidata myself, if I want to have them represented there? --MomoMilkiway (talk) 08:16, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

You may do, in future, but in response to original post, I added both papers to Wikidata. Andy Mabbett (User:Pigsonthewing); Andy's talk; Andy's edits 14:04, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Thank you for doing so! I have added the publications to the original page and rephrased the introduction a bit --MomoMilkiway (talk) 20:25, 31 March 2021 (UTC)