[OSM-talk-be] Survey-article / Belgian OSM website

[Marc Gemis]

With diary post, you mean diaries on osm.org ? Or are you describing
the differences between Projects and News ?

Along the same lines: is an interview with a mapper really news ? Or
do we need a third type: "Blog posts" aka diaries or ... ?

m.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Ben Abelshausen
<ben.abelshausen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> I think these are very nice things to put on the website! The only
> difference I see with for example a diary post is that OSM.be also tries to
> be a recruiting tool and that communication is a bit different.
>
> I would write short articles about a very specific activity we do, in this
> case for example, I would shorten the article to an overview of what you do
> and we can showcase how we (some of us) survey, to get people interested,
> and use the diary to share specific technologies/ways of doing things with
> the general OSM community. No problem linking to more details in the blog on
> OSM.be
>
> Those are just my thoughts on what we should do on OSM.be vs all the other
> communication channels we already have, feel free to comment! :-)
>
> Also: a series on what to map would be great but not sure how this would
> work. I was also planning on writing about some of the talks I gave about
> OSM last month, one of them was about mapping 'public space' and I used the
> example of the statues in middelheim park! ;-)
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> Best regards,
>
> Ben Abelshausen
>
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 8:38 AM, Marc Gemis <marc.gemis at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hallo,
>>
>> yesterday evening I posted an article on how I prepare and make my
>> surveys. You can find it on the osm.be website at
>> http://www.osm.be/2017/04/21/en-post-survey.html . It's in English.
>> Feel free to translate it in Dutch and French.
>>
>> I am wondering whether it would be interesting to write a series of
>> articles on "what to map". I'm thinking about lesser known topics such
>> as destinations, minor power lines, sluice gates, fire hydrants. Each
>> article should give some information how you can document it during
>> the surveys, how to add it in 1 or more editors, some maps or apps
>> where you can see the result.
>>
>> What do think ? Do you want to read such articles ? Do you want to
>> write such articles yourself ? Review stuff that I write before it
>> goes online ? Translate them ?
>> Have an idea for a topic ?
>>
>> Let's make the osm.be website more interesting.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> m.
>>
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