[Talk-ca] OpenStreetMap Canada Facebook Page

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Tue Jul 27 05:45:52 BST 2010


Hi All,

Like other mediums we have, and not everyone will be connected to it.
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=messages#!/pages/OpenStreetMap-Canada/129173017125834

I created a facebook page, and set all of the people who 'like' it, to
become and admin to the page, so then it's works the same way that the
Wiki is set to.
So if you dont like something on the page, you can edit it.

Just like how some people dont like Facebook

(8:46:02 PM) Acrosscanadatrails: cool ... thats was fast ..
unfortunatly ... everyone is on facebook ... be it peer pressure or
accidental
(8:49:12 PM) JohnSmith: <- isn't
(8:49:48 PM) Acrosscanadatrails: lol
(8:49:53 PM) Acrosscanadatrails: yet
(8:50:09 PM) JohnSmith: I get an allergic reaction to facebook urls
(8:50:31 PM) Acrosscanadatrails: Now THAT should be on a t-shirt :)
(8:51:06 PM) JohnSmith: heh

There are lots of users who dont like IRC chat, nor like this talk-ca@
mailing list nor the OSM forum.   I guess this is yet another simple
form of  'outreach' to the community.   So then its a way to
cross-share ideas that are generated from the other mediums.
Announcements and stuff.  .. or rather, as a way to try to connect
with all of the existing mappers, so more people are on the same page.

Especially now with the map currently changing with 'hyper-growth', i
think it's important to start getting more mappers (who already work
on OSM) to be able to start working on their own area.     Now that we
have an 'semi-established' method for working with the canvec data,
it's a probably a good idea to start a little more crowd-sourcing.

Canada is notoriously known on facebook, so most of you have an
account. (be it peer pressure or accidental) :-)
What was interesting was that as soon as i set it up and invited all
my osm contacts, 2 instantly 'liked' it.

Cheers,
Sam



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