[talk-ph] seeing new mappers lately

Eugene Alvin Villar seav80 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 2 16:25:47 GMT 2009


Wait. Did the "too spammish" comment came from a new mapper, a new to the
Philippine part of the OSM mapper, or somebody else? I think it is a very
good message actually. We could tweak it a little. :-)

On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:00 PM, maning sambale
<emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm seeing new mappers around Metro manila and other areas lately.
> Anybody here welcoming them?
> I stopped doing it when I was labeled a spammer by another
> contributor.  Maybe my message of welcoming and invitation is too
> "spammish".
> Can we craft a better "non-spammish" message for new mappers?
>
> Here's what I wrote before, feel free to improve.
>
> ====
> Hi! Just to want to say welcome to OSM Philippines!
>
> Little by little we are getting more contributors for the Philippines
> particularly in Metro Manila and adjacent provinces, more roads are
> added every week. I see your adding data, thank you for your
> contributions!
>
> We have a wikipage for coordinating things a bit:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/WikiProject_Philippines
>
> Also our mailinglist is:
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk-ph
>
> Please add your name in the wiki and where you intend to to focus mapping.
>
> If you need help feel free to send us a message in talk-ph mailinglist.
>
> cheers,
>
> maning
> ====
>
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