<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"> Ævar<br></font><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><br>> Agreed, but you personally control the openstreetmap twitter account<br>> don't you? If you think waze's twitter account is nice (what it mostly<br>> does is answer a bunch of user questions, which implies a dedicated<br>> support team sitting behind it). Then perhaps you should give other<br>> people access to that account so they can field user questions under<br>> the of OpenStreetMap banner.<br><br>Access to the Twitter account, and to posting on OGD, is open.<br>I think your suggestions to answer user questions through our media<br>streams is a good one.<br><br><br>> More
generally, I agree with your point that we should have more of a<br>> "let's just do it" culture, but it also doesn't help much to have what<br>> are essentially unfinished drive-by improvements like the website<br>> redesign and now the logo which just seem to stir up a lot of dust,<br>> and never go anywhere. I don't mean that it's your fault, just that<br>> there's obviously a lot of disagreement about what we should be doing.<br>> <br>> I we keep having these discussions because don't have any clear<br>> direction for what we want to *do* with OpenStreetMap.org.<br><br>I think the most effective way to push forward what osm.org could be<br>is by demonstrating ideas with code. Isn't the code base now on github?<br>Start forking, trying out ideas ... things that work are going to be more<br>convincing than our descriptions of what to do. Code that works<br>(in all senses) should make it out to production.<br><br>These can even
be small details. I really really like the additional<br>icons on the browse pages.<br><br><span><a target="_blank" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dankarran/diary/10695">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/dankarran/diary/10695</a></span><br><br>Best<br>Mikel<br></div></div>
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