Thank you Spencer for your thoughts! Speaking from my own experience, I come to OSM with many blind spots and I rely on others to help me understand what those blind spots are.
Perhaps that is one best ways academic research can contribute to OSM -- to let us see something new that we were not able to see before. And thanks to Spencer for being brave enough to share your recessive eye color [1][2]. ;) Alyssa [1] Did you know that green is recessive to brown but dominant over blue? Hope you weren't mapping during bio classes. [2] I think it's super creative that Spencer combined the "mapping blind spots" and "eye color" in the same thread! Yay! OSMers are so creative! On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 9:36 PM Spencer Gardner <[email protected]> wrote: > My thoughts are: > > 1. The negative reactions to the study seem to be putting the cart > before the horse. If our goal is to make OSM the most accurate and complete > map on the planet, it makes sense to me that we would want to understand > where our blind spots might be, whether they're due to differences in > participation by gender, ideology, etc. I would expect a vigorous debate > and passionate disagreement about what (if anything) to do about a blind > spot if one is found, but that's not really the question at hand. Let's > cross that bridge when we come to it. Of course, I'm willing to entertain > arguments for why someone shouldn't pursue this line of inquiry but I don't > see a compelling reason. > 2. Thanks to the OSM community (esp. Ian, Alyssa, and the rest of the > board) for encouraging open, respectful conversation. I find my own > feelings on topics like this to be more complicated than either of the > screaming sides so I believe it's critical to ensure many voices are heard, > even from those whose perspective we find difficult. > > Regards, > Spencer > (green eyes) > > > On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 6:47 PM, alyssa wright <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Re your question about 👁🌍 >> >> If you are doing an academic study on eye color and OSM/VGI contribution >> -- I'd be happy to moderate a townhall as well. >> >> For what it's worth, I have blue eyes (and glasses). >> >> Alyssa. >> >> >> >> On Tue, Sep 5, 2017 at 7:12 PM, Joel Holdsworth <[email protected] >> > wrote: >> >>> Could we have one eye colour, also? ;-) >>> >>> >>> >>> On 05/09/17 17:03, Ian Dees wrote: >>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> Let's continue the conversation on this new thread, keeping in mind >>>> that we all need to keep our mind open and have productive and positive >>>> conversation. >>>> >>>> I reserve the right to add a moderated cooling off period if we get too >>>> hostile towards each other again. >>>> >>>> -Ian >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Talk-us mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-us mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-us mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >> >> > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us >
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