[OSM-dev] Notes - OSM improvements BoF at SOTM PDX

[Tom MacWright]

> The problem I see is, other than pointing to planet.openstreetmap.org I'm
not sure where else we would send them?
> While there are lots of other places to get things like regional extracts
they are unofficial third party sites so I don't think that we should be
referring people to them from the main site.

I think pointing people to jXAPI could work, or one thing. And, the whole
'unofficial third party sources' bit isn't that strong;
planet.osm.orgpoints to third-party sources, and so does the wiki.

In short, they exist and are useful, and I think it makes sense to reduce
the number of logical leaps you need to take to get from A to B, because
I'd assume a ton of people are getting lost along the way.

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 11:32 AM, Eric Marsden <eric.marsden at free.fr> wrote:

> >>>>> "fr" == Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> writes:
>
>   fr> In Wikipedia, all user-to-user messages are automatically public
>   fr> (unless both parties agree to take it to email). Maybe food for
>   fr> thought - do we need private messages at all? There seem to be
>   fr> quite a number of bullies in OSM who send self-important messages
>   fr> to lesser experienced mappers explaining "their" rules... that
>   fr> could be stopped if all messages were public.
>
>   Are you talking about the OSMF DWG?
>
> --
> Eric Marsden
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