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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Thanks for
your answer, it encourages me in my opinion of the necessity of a forum.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">As i joined
the mailing list just a few days ago, i couldn’t find a way to answer to your
older thread. Maybe someone can put my message there: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">As long as
it is compatible with data privacy, i support the usage of ohm for your project
(i also started to do a bit of one-place-study for my hometown by the way :) </span><span style="font-family:Wingdings" lang="EN-GB"><span style="mso-char-type:symbol;
mso-symbol-font-family:Wingdings"></span></span><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">)! But otherwise in my opinion we should get an
arrangement on some basic things first (e.g. tagging with ohm:-prefix?, discuss
about time-slider, establish time-slider...) before we can talk about data that
are not familiar with openstreetmap. So I think OHM is probably the right place
for you in the long term (we can talk about everything, nothing is determined)
but not yet – but that’s also just my opinion.</span></p>
</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2016-04-09 11:41 GMT+02:00 Peter Cooper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@pcooper.me.uk" target="_blank">peter@pcooper.me.uk</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I think I am the person who last started a thread on the OHM mailing list
(Feb 2016 - <a title="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2016-February/000963.html" href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2016-February/000963.html" target="_blank">https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2016-February/000963.html</a>)
prior to this latest conversation. I was very new to mapping then, wanting to do
historical mapping for a “one-place study”, and hoping to start a conversation
with people who knew what is possible etc. Nothing came of that, so I assumed
the OHM list (and project?) was dormant. I am not sure if my impression then was
valid, but that can be a danger if something on the web is public but not used
(possibly because the main conversations are elsewhere). I was not aware of any
other context OHM was being discussed.</div>
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<div>Personally (I am old!) there are quite a few technologies I will not use
for various reasons unless I absolutely have to (Facebook included). I
considered how to take my musings, researches and conversations about mapping
for one-place studies forward, and so set up a forum using SMF – you can see it
at <a href="http://mapping4ops.org" target="_blank">mapping4ops.org</a>. Unfortunately, now that
spring is here in the UK, I am not getting much time on mapping but I hope to
get back to it soon.</div>
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<div>I do not know how relevant it is to this conversation you are having but my
experience with a forum has been:</div>
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<li>I do not have many contributions from others yet (but I have only recently
started publicising the forum at all)
</li><li>SMF was easy to set up technically (we have a small grant to help us, but
so far that has only been needed for the domain)
</li><li>I am still struggling to find the right Category/Board/Child Board
structure, as currently it is not as easy as I want to find your way around
</li><li>It has been invaluable for me to document my findings and thoughts in a
(sort of) structured way
</li><li>It is excellent for searching
</li><li>Even if not many contribute to the forum it will have been valuable for
me, and will be useful as a basis for documenting whatever approach we
eventually take
</li><li>I realise that I need to keep posting to the forum so that anyone visiting
realises that it is not dormant, but these posts need not be very long
</li><li>As with many forums, unless there is controversy or people get something
really useful out of it, I am not expecting many to contribute</li></ul>
<div>This has been my two-pennyworth on Forums; but if anyone wants to comment
on the way in which OHM might be relevant to Mapping for One-Place Studies I
would be very grateful – either as a new thread on this mailing list, or on the
<a href="http://mapping4ops.org" target="_blank">mapping4ops.org</a> forum.</div>
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<div>Peter</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="bilbo.beuthel@gmail.com" href="mailto:bilbo.beuthel@gmail.com" target="_blank">PauLL170 .</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, April 9, 2016 10:04 AM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="sam@samwilson.id.au" href="mailto:sam@samwilson.id.au" target="_blank">Sam Wilson</a> </div>
<div><b>Cc:</b> <a title="historic@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:historic@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank">historic@openstreetmap.org</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OHM] We need a forum!</div></div></div>
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<div>I already created a facebook page (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/Open-Historical-Map-515547755294262/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/Open-Historical-Map-515547755294262/</a>)
and a group (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/1513784935591521/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/groups/1513784935591521/</a>).
It's nice-to-have, but like all other suggestions it is bound to a specific
institution. A forum is the most neutral and public platform in my opinion. If i
would be a able to install one i would have done it already. A new permanent
section in the openstreetmap-forum sounds good for me, too! But in this case we
are dependent on the beneficence of others when it comes to the question if that
would be okay.<br><br></div>
<div>Beside my principles, the wikimedia-discourse could be a good platform,
indeed!<br></div>
<div> </div>P.S.: Don't get me wrong, i appreciate that way of
communication here, but it is not the optimum for getting in touch with
(possible) new users, discussing their ideas, answering questions
etc.<br><br></div>
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