<div dir="ltr"><span class="im" style="font-size:13px"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">What I've been mulling over is the "home location" data on the<br>profile. Right now it's close to useless. I'd like to be able to set<br>multiple areas (not points) and rate them "can survey / good local<br>knowledge / particularly interested". <br><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">^^^ This is an excellent idea and a feature I would definitely use.</blockquote><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Agreed! Forgive me if this is a little off topic, but to me related because it's about finding people to make a local community.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">We talked about this a bit at the HOT Birds of a Feather at State of the Map -- to me it's a great idea. Why not ask some basic (and purely optional) information when people join OSM, with some fields for that info, especially location (with dropdowns and not free text, ideally) and maybe other interest areas (e.g. humanitarian, biking, whatever else) and use that to connect the user with their local group or other some interest group. "You live in Country X or ideally City Y, here is the site for the local group there." or "You noted you were interested in biking, here is the site for that group." Something like that to help connect them and give them someone to talk to or get involved with. </div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Right now it's all free text that people add themselves after they join, if they choose to do so, which makes it hard to use.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">To me, once people join, nothing happens. They are basically required to be pro-active and go out and find what they want to do -- which is fine, but not everyone is going to do that. I think some suggestions too would help. It took me quite some time to find Pascal Neis's "Who's mapping around me" tool, for example.[1]</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">I have no idea what the procedure is for talking about changing the login page, however.</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">Andrew</div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div style="font-size:13px">[1] <a href="http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc">http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/oooc</a></div><div style="font-size:13px"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 2:57 PM, Eleanor Tutt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eleanor.tutt@gmail.com" target="_blank">eleanor.tutt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="">On Tue, Jun 16, 2015 at 4:07 AM, moltonel 3x Combo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:moltonel@gmail.com" target="_blank">moltonel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
What I've been mulling over is the "home location" data on the<br>
profile. Right now it's close to useless. I'd like to be able to set<br>
multiple areas (not points) and rate them "can survey / good local<br>
knowledge / particularly interested". <br>
<div><div><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div>^^^ This is an excellent idea and a feature I would definitely use.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote">Also, this thread is of great interest to me, but I'm entering it quite late and many points have already been discussed. I'll just say a few things:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">1) I am thankful to Erica Hagen for her original post, as I think these are critical things to think about.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">2) Hagen's point that "there are degrees of local that we are failing to account for" reminds me of many discussions I've had in my own community about what it means to be "from a place," whose voices are viewed as representative of a neighborhood, who has access to power, etc. While much of the discussion here has been in the context of international/humanitarian mapping, these same questions play out on a micro scale in cities and neighborhoods. It is worth thinking about who is mapping in your own community and whether you are working to involve neighborhood residents, do offline outreach, etc. at home.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Thanks,<br>Eleanor</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div></div></div>
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