[OHM] We need a forum!

Sat Apr 9 10:30:11 UTC 2016

Thanks for your answer, it encourages me in my opinion of the necessity of
a forum.

As i joined the mailing list just a few days ago, i couldn’t find a way to
answer to your older thread. Maybe someone can put my message there:

As long as it is compatible with data privacy, i support the usage of ohm
for your project (i also started to do a bit of one-place-study for my
hometown by the way :) )! But otherwise in my opinion we should get an
arrangement on some basic things first (e.g. tagging with ohm:-prefix?,
discuss about time-slider, establish time-slider...) before we can talk
about data that are not familiar with openstreetmap. So I think OHM is
probably the right place for you in the long term (we can talk about
everything, nothing is determined) but not yet – but that’s also just my
opinion.

2016-04-09 11:41 GMT+02:00 Peter Cooper <peter at pcooper.me.uk>:

> I think I am the person who last started a thread on the OHM mailing list
> (Feb 2016 -
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2016-February/000963.html)
> prior to this latest conversation. I was very new to mapping then, wanting
> to do historical mapping for a “one-place study”, and hoping to start a
> conversation with people who knew what is possible etc. Nothing came of
> that, so I assumed the OHM list (and project?) was dormant. I am not sure
> if my impression then was valid, but that can be a danger if something on
> the web is public but not used (possibly because the main conversations are
> elsewhere). I was not aware of any other context OHM was being discussed.
>
> Personally (I am old!) there are quite a few technologies I will not use
> for various reasons unless I absolutely have to (Facebook included). I
> considered how to take my musings, researches and conversations about
> mapping for one-place studies forward, and so set up a forum using SMF –
> you can see it at mapping4ops.org. Unfortunately, now that spring is here
> in the UK, I am not getting much time on mapping but I hope to get back to
> it soon.
>
> I do not know how relevant it is to this conversation you are having but
> my experience with a forum has been:
>
>    - I do not have many contributions from others yet (but I have only
>    recently started publicising the forum at all)
>    - SMF was easy to set up technically (we have a small grant to help
>    us, but so far that has only been needed for the domain)
>    - I am still struggling to find the right Category/Board/Child Board
>    structure, as currently it is not as easy as I want to find your way around
>    - It has been invaluable for me to document my findings and thoughts
>    in a (sort of) structured way
>    - It is excellent for searching
>    - Even if not many contribute to the forum it will have been valuable
>    for me, and will be useful as a basis for documenting whatever approach we
>    eventually take
>    - I realise that I need to keep posting to the forum so that anyone
>    visiting realises that it is not dormant, but these posts need not be very
>    long
>    - As with many forums, unless there is controversy or people get
>    something really useful out of it, I am not expecting many to contribute
>
> This has been my two-pennyworth on Forums; but if anyone wants to comment
> on the way in which OHM might be relevant to Mapping for One-Place Studies
> I would be very grateful – either as a new thread on this mailing list, or
> on the mapping4ops.org forum.
>
> Peter
>
> *From:* PauLL170 . <bilbo.beuthel at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Saturday, April 9, 2016 10:04 AM
> *To:* Sam Wilson <sam at samwilson.id.au>
> *Cc:* historic at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* Re: [OHM] We need a forum!
>
> I already created a facebook page (
> https://www.facebook.com/Open-Historical-Map-515547755294262/) and a
> group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/1513784935591521/). It's
> nice-to-have, but like all other suggestions it is bound to a specific
> institution. A forum is the most neutral and public platform in my opinion.
> If i would be a able to install one i would have done it already. A new
> permanent section in the openstreetmap-forum sounds good for me, too! But
> in this case we are dependent on the beneficence of others when it comes to
> the question if that would be okay.
>
> Beside my principles, the wikimedia-discourse could be a good platform,
> indeed!
>
> P.S.: Don't get me wrong, i appreciate that way of communication here, but
> it is not the optimum for getting in touch with (possible) new users,
> discussing their ideas, answering questions etc.
>
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