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I am not an expert in surveying but my gut feeling tells me that visiting people at home and having a personal conversation delivers high quality data, albeit b
by perfunctory 8y ago
I am not an expert in surveying but my gut feeling tells me that visiting people at home and having a personal conversation delivers high quality data, albeit being expensive. I fear we might loose that quality in the age of social media and big data.
- lifeisstillgood 8y agoWe only lose the expensive stuff when we no longer are willing to pay for the expensive stuff. And compared tonbuilding roads in places no one wants its cheap. What is needed is better accountability to the "public" for such civil engineering decisions - which means generally better more engaged local politics (this being a virtuous circle since more local people will get engaged when they realise they have influence over such decisions If part of the decision making process was a documentary on youtube of whommakes the local decisions, what the impact of crossing X would be then I could see more people getting involved one called call it the nightly news