[Talk-ca] local OSM groups

Richard Weait richard at weait.com
Fri Feb 11 15:17:34 GMT 2011


Hi all,

Matthias Meißer has made it easier to find a local OSM group.  The
German OSM community has had a map of local groups for quite a while.
Matthias has extended that tool to work on a global scale. Here is how
it works.

1) Local groups add a local group template to their wiki page.  This
should be a place wiki page for that area.  Fill in the details on the
template.
2) The local user group bot collects the template data from the wiki
once a day or so.
3) User groups appear on the map with link information to their
authoritative source.

This works if you are organizing your local group on the OSM wiki, on
Facebook or Meetup or elsewhere[1], but allows everybody to go to one
source to find all local groups.  That's good.  But it only works if
you have added a template for your local group.

So go add a template for your group!  ;-)

The German map with all of the German local groups to envy, is here.
http://www.openstreetmap.de/

The template information is here.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Template:User_group

The new global OSM group map is here.
http://ikaria.informatik.uni-rostock.de/mm337/osm/usergroups/

And a minimal page example using the local group template plus the
place template, is here.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Waterloo_region



[1] These external links are not yet displayed, but that bug has been
reported and is being fixed Real Soon Now.



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