[OSM-dev] Hello World

[Paweł Paprota]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012, at 23:28, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 12.10.2012 23:13, Paweł Paprota wrote:
> >> * Social OSM: feh, don't care.
> 
> My take on social OSM is a combination of these views - "feh" because I 
> myself am really not interested in "your friend Peter mapped a post box 
> yesterday!"; but I can see that there *are* people who would like that 
> kind of thing and if we can offer it to them - all the better.
> 

I'm not a very "social" person myself but when I started thinking about
"social" in the context of OSM it hit me that it's a great fit. The
thing is that on Facebook vast majority of updates that come in does not
interest me at all, hence I use Facebook maybe once a week to check
updates on some book authors I like or hang glider manufacturer
discussion group or whatever.

Now, in OSM that is completely different (for me) - I would really like
to see what's going on in my area, what are people working on. I would
like to be able to quickly send a broadcast and say "let's go and map X
and Y".

So I think "social OSM" maybe is not the best name for this because it
reminds people of Facebook's garbage "I just ate a sandwich" status
updates.

In any case, we will see how it works out, for sure I think it's worth a
try.

> There are also a number of interesting things that I would perhaps not 
> use, but like to toy with as a coder - for example I've long been 
> thinking, wouldn't it be cool if an editor were showing a little chat 
> box to the side where you would be connected live to the people editing 
> in the same city right now?
> 

Very cool idea, not sure how many people would use it (hard to predict
such things) but it aligns nicely with the idea of making communication
between mappers easier.

Paweł