[OSM-dev] Hello World

[Alex Barth]

Just sifting through the thread again … I like this idea for connecting people as they're editing… I guess it's worthwhile pointing out that when we wrote into the Knight proposal 'better social tools' we were thinking less 'post my latest change to twitter' - extreme example, noone suggested we would - but more like 'how can we connect mappers better?'.

For instance: I'd like to know better who's mapping in any areas I have mapped. In Portland someone had the idea of notifying me if someone modified data in an area I've just recently worked on. For instance: currently we're showing mappers' home locations on our user profiles - I don't find that as useful as showing mappers who've recently mapped in an area I'm interested in - doesn't need to be my home town.

On Oct 12, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On 12.10.2012 23:13, Paweł Paprota wrote:
>>> * Social OSM: feh, don't care.
>> 
>> I accept that there are different views on that topic. Ultimately I
>> think the project can greatly benefit from having more mappers (through
>> better osm.org usability and social-ability).
> 
> 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.
> 
> 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?
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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