What do you mean, "The wrong route?" Is there a wrong route for recruiting and engaging new mappers?<div><br></div><div>As for interacting, why are you presuming I have not done so?<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jan 1, 2013 at 8:58 PM, Robin Paulson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:robin@bumblepuppy.org" target="_blank">robin@bumblepuppy.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On 2013-01-02 07:26, Jeff Meyer wrote:<br>
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I agree that rules can be tricky. Would it be possible, to play<br></div>
around with the code youve written, to see what results it generates?<br>
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The issue Im trying to address is this: people who sign up for OSM &<div class="im"><br>
then make 0 edits. Why? Is it because they cannot find the editor? Is<br></div>
it because they dont know what to edit?<br>
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have you tried good old human interaction? rather than trying to second guess them and spending a lot of time creating some tool which doesn't address the problem, maybe ask why they don't contribute?<br>
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this isn't at all answering the question you asked, but i think you may have asked a question which takes you down the wrong route.<div class="im HOEnZb"><br>
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