<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">I’ve started building an index of OSM community resources here:<div class=""><a href="https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">"Resources" can be links to forums, meetups, Slack groups, Facebook groups, mailing lists, and so on. Anything that mappers, especially beginners, might find interesting or helpful.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">Why?</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Currently when you save an edit in iD, you will see a screen prompting you to share your edit on Facebook, Twitter, Google+. But we’d prefer instead to use this screen to let the user know more about the community around where they are editing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See <a href="https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4815" class="">https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD/issues/4815</a> for discussion and some mockups.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While the initial use of this index will be primarily to support this iD feature that will be released soon, I’d love to see other applications that have a community focus use the index as well. For example, if you are reviewing an edit in OSMCha, and you see something that looks like vandalism or an undiscussed import and you want to ask someone in the local community to take a look, this index could tell you how to reach out to somebody local.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">What about { existing lists / the OSM wiki }?</b></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I did look at existing community lists, and there are several, but most of those lists do not support adding a bounding polygon around a community. Several of them do let you place a single pin where the community is, but I was looking for something that would let me draw complex bounding areas, and filter to only show communities active around in the area where a user is editing. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We already have a successful project for sharing imagery sources that editors can use (see <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/editor-layer-index</a> ) so I decided to create something very similar.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class=""><b style="font-size: 14px;" class="">How can I help?</b></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="">Glad you asked! </div></div><div class="">1. Go to <a href="https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/" class="">https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index/</a> and watch or star the project. ⭐️</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2. Read the README and CONTRIBUTING documents. These contain info about which files need to be added:</div><div class=""><ul class="MailOutline"><li class="">Each resource needs a `.json` file to describe it, and </li><li class="">a `.geojson` file to describe where the region where it is active. (multiple resources can share a .geojson file)</li></ul></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3. Either add the files with a Pull Request, or open an issue for somebody else to add the files. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks!</div><div class="">Bryan</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></body></html>