OpenStreetMap
Planning a trip to a remote area and realized it would be really cool to meet other mappers in the region where i’m traveling. Wish there was an easy way to broadcast a message to the top/recent contributors in a location. Right now the easiest way seems to be looking at the the list of top users when editing in iD and sending them message.
Any other tools that could help? Very few users are on any community communication channels here in India.
討論
由Richard於2016年12月6日10:50發表的評論
Groups on osm.org! :)
A halfway functional pull request exists (https://github.com/openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website/pull/297) but it was never finished and needs restarting from scratch, really. But the intention was absolutely to cater for situations like this.
由PlaneMad於2016年12月6日13:30發表的評論
Groups would have been so good. For a community thats so much about interacting and exploring, there is woefully inadequate interactions on the website itself.
由Zverik於2016年12月6日15:33發表的評論
The best way for now is to search for local communities. E.g. when I’ve travelled to Portugal, I’ve wrote a message to the talk-pt@ mailing list. Despite a few replies nothing came out of it, but it could be fun.
When you’re in Russia, definitely post me a line so I can organize a pub meetup :)
由Jean-Marc Liotier於2016年12月7日11:21發表的評論
Even if only a tiny minority participates in mailing lists or other gregarious electronic exchanges, those who do may be in touch with local groups… That way I met a bunch of stealth contributors in a couple of countries.
由mvexel於2016年12月7日17:57發表的評論
Richard, I still feel bad about never coming through with completing that effort…Who can I muster to revive it?
由d1g於2016年12月8日11:09發表的評論
Mailing lists are dead, few use IRC regularly; the only way to spot local mappers is http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc
And guess who forms a community and who is not. Some users may take a 1 year break in edits but can consult you anyway.