[OSM-newbies] Village_pump

[Thomas Wood]

On Tue, 2008-07-22 at 12:00 +0200, Roland OSM wrote:
> Thanks! So someone needs three to five accounts and people
> check all these channels?

Not quite.

> 1) a (or several) mailing-list account(s) to ask questions
Not required, but recommended. Services such as nabble could also be
used.
> 2) a wiki-account to ask in the wiki (it seems that anonymous edits
> are not allowed)
Yep
> 3) another account for editing the map
Yep
> 4) an account for the forum (no anonymous posting there)
Is the same as 3, we're starting to widen the use of the single login
system. The t at h distributed rendering service is also using it now.
> 5) an irc account
IRC doesn't really have accounts, it's just a nickname that you sign in
as, nobody owns them.
> 
> For the last days I have been trying to find out how the OSM project
> works. I am an advanced user in several wikis, however,
> apart from the fact that editing map data is by nature more
> complex than editing text ... is this extra level of confusion 
> necessary or did it just happen?

It just happened as we grew. Its easiest just to use multiple software
packages for project maintenance, the idea of hooking them all together
is always an afterthought and not a particularly important priority at
the moment.

> I guess several people have asked this question before ... ;-)

A few :D
> 
> Roland
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>         There's also the forum at http://forum.openstreetmap.org/ if
>         you
>         prefer that, or even IRC. Check out
>         http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Additional_Help for
>         all the
>         details.
>         
>         Cheers,
>         (another) Andy
>         
>         
>         On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:33 AM, Andy Robinson
>         (blackadder-lists)
>         <ajrlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
>         > We don't have one. Stuff of this nature generally gets
>         posted to the
>         > discussion page on each individual wiki page or becomes a
>         tread on one of
>         > the mailing lists. If you want one then its easy enough to
>         create :-) the
>         > wiki is that way ------->
>         >
>         > Cheers
>         >
>         > Andy
>         >
>         >>-----Original Message-----
>         >>From: newbies-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:newbies-
>         >>bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Roland OSM
>         >>Sent: 22 July 2008 10:25 AM
>         >>To: newbies at openstreetmap.org
>         >>Subject: [OSM-newbies] Village_pump
>         >>
>         >>Hi,
>         >>
>         >>I've hard tried to find it, but I did not succeed. Where is
>         the
>         >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump of OSM?
>         >>
>         >>There seems no possibility to get quick help.
>         >>
>         >>Thanks
>         >>Roland
>         >>
>         >>
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