Of course a private closed forum would violate the guidelines. I think the technical term, if you did that and claimed an imaginary emergency, would be “taking the mickey”.

For transparency’s sake, here are the questions I got from the board on Thursday. Some questions were on the exact same paragraphs, but from the opposite angle. This shows, once again, that we listened to all sides, and chose compromise over confrontation to get something that everyone could live with.

Hi Christoph! As you say yourself, there were discussions before and after the first draft. There were many posts to the mailing lists, and I actually have some of your contributions printed out and annotated here on my desk. You and I were in Karlsruhe last spring when Frederik and I very openly brainstormed on these with whoever wanted to join. I’ve asked pretty much every mapper I’ve met this year for their thoughts. I think it’s unfair to me and ungrateful to everyone who helped me to suggest that there was no dialogue.

I did not say good or bad things about the other existing policies, on OSM and elsewhere, in my report. What I’m saying is that we looked at what people are familiar with (and got rid of the unfamiliar RFC-style writing), and what solutions people elsewhere have come up with (which doesn’t fit OSM for many reasons). If we hadn’t done this, you would (rightly) be accusing me of having written something that doesn’t fit in the existing ecosystem, and of having reinvented the wheel by ignoring the world outside.

I understand that you would have liked us to be less compromising in our compromise, but I describing the result as toothless shows a misunderstanding. The “Informing the community” section, in particular, guarantees that local mappers won’t get steamrolled and strongly encourages a constructive collaboration.

Hi Rob! I had a look at osm.wiki/UK_2018_Q4_Project:_Addresses_and_Postcodes_revisited and it seems to me that the UK quarterly projects actually already do most of what the guidelines recommend! The UK community seems to have decided by itself that doing this kind of thing is a good idea. What should be done in addition to that and what is unnecessary is up to the local community to decide, really.

Tangent: we should look at integrating https://raggedred.net/codepoint/ in editors. If you make a PR to the Editor Layer Index, I’ll merge it.

This looks really cool!

How does this deal with cases where the GTFS only has one centroid for the stop point and OSM has all the individual platforms and stop positions mapped?

Is there any Ubuntu-specific stuff in it, or should it run on anything that runs Django and postgis?

I love the data bulletin idea too, that’s so cool! Will you make it a regular thing?

I think it’s very interesting that the import guidelines don’t actually define what the term means.

Boundaries are one of the few things we have in OSM that you can’t collect on the ground - how are you collecting them? Boundary markers?

Viel Erfolg!

Hi everyone! This seems to have fallen asleep. Mikel, if you’d agree to extend this again to the 1st of March, I’ll match your pledge.

Welcome Harman! I’ve been editing my local map for a few years, and I’m still editing at 50% :).

Adding to the thanks!

Hello Paul,

You are, rightly, campaigning based on your good results from your work on the board. You are a voice for protecting mappers, and conserve things as they are.

You outline a few areas where you see the need for more regulation. Can you maybe outline how you think your proposals in those area could look?

Besides keeping the machine running smoothly, do you see new directions which the OSMF should explore?

Thank you for your answers, and good luck.

Hello David,

in a way that ensures that remote and local mappers are assisted directly in our mapping tools, rather than having the output of an algorithm imported widescale without their direct involvement in the process.

That’s very interesting. Considering that the OSMF voters would tend to be passionate craft mappers, can you talk more about how you see this working?

Thank you for your answers, and good luck.

Hello Heather,

Your manifesto brings up good questions, which you would be expected to answer as a board member. What are your ideas on how we could achieve the goals you would like the OSMF to pursue?

You talk about your growing engagement and contributions, but your mapping is only casual. You’ve only mapped four days this year. Isn’t creating the map an essential experience to have to be a competent board member?

Thank you for your answers and good luck.

Luxusprobleme :)

For what it’s worth, the French style draws the lines on tennis courts and football fields automatically along the rectangle, e.g. http://tile.openstreetmap.fr/?zoom=19&lat=49.63175&lon=6.11431&layers=B000000FFFFFF

Thank you DigitalGlobe!

The premium imagery is great; it covers places in Ireland that weren’t well covered by bing, or very badly. For example, Inishtrahull, off the coast of Donegal. It’s also great to then georeference the old gsgs map

Welcome, and happy mapping!

How cool. SNS can’t be exposed externally directly, but it can be used to trigger actions, e.g. push notifications, email, calls to another trigger script…

@imagico reddit limits abuse by only sending notifications if less than three users are mentioned.