<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body><div class="gmail_quote">Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">Ok, I'll bite...<br /><div><br />>I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a
group Twitter caters specifically to), what are the >odds you're going to
be able to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to
OSM?<br /><br /></div><div>How do illiterate people use Twitter?<br /></div><div>Do illiterate people have no spatial knowledge that could be of use to the wider world? Is there no way that Open spatial data could help illiterate people?<br />
</div><div>Is "our audience" people that look at <a href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a> and don't like social media?<br /><br /></div><div>In my opinion OSM is going to really take off once we start making more use of social media, or other means of participation, such as SMS messaging (the sorts of things you couldn't do with closed spatial data, such as GMaps), and start thinking less of pixels on <a href="http://osm.org">osm.org</a><br />
<br /></div><div>Joseph<br /></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 January 2013 15:15, Paul Johnson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baloo@ursamundi.org" target="_blank">baloo@ursamundi.org</a>></span> wrote:<br />
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="im">On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:</div>
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I think it is ok for us to post stuff to Twitter, and I think we should make room for such news on our web page (many web sites have a widget that shows the most recent twitter mentions).<br />
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I would dislike a "follow us on Twitter" button because it will only show the Twitter signup page if someone doesn't have an account, and therefore make it look like you had to subscribe to Twitter in order to read our news - which is thankfully not true.<br />
</blockquote><div><br /></div></div><div>I think this would be missing our audience. If you're illiterate (a group Twitter caters specifically to), what are the odds you're going to be able to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM?</div>
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<p style="margin-top: 2.5em; margin-bottom: 1em; border-bottom: 1px solid #000"></p><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace; margin-top: 0px"><hr /><br />talk mailing list<br />talk@openstreetmap.org<br /><a href="http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk">http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div><br clear="all">I think that was a somewhat-snarky way of commenting on how many Twitter users don't spell very well and/or have poor grammar. This isn't limited to Twitter users, unfortunately.<br>
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