[talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers

maning sambale emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com
Tue Oct 28 03:58:53 UTC 2014


Thanks Totor.  So we have a "welcoming committee member" in Cebu. :)
What about other areas?

On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Totor <totor_osm at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I usually send a welcome message to new mappers in Cebu
> (I stopped monitoring Bohol a long time ago), but only if the
> user has several edits over some days/weeks.
> I always though it might feel creepy if you receive a welcome
> message, as soon as you do your first edit.
> This makes that I did not send that many (around 10 I guess
> since I started mapping) but I had feedback from about half
> of them.
>
> I generally thank them for helping in Cebu (there are not
> many mappers here) and tell they can ask me or the mailing
> list (with link) for help/answers, and add links to the ph and
> main map features page.
> If there are big or repeating problems with the edits,
> I also add a comment on how I would map that.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Totor
>
> --------------------------------------------
> On Sun, 10/26/14, maning sambale  wrote:
>
>  Subject: [talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers
>  To: "osm-ph"
>  Date: Sunday, October 26, 2014, 10:05 PM
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Once in a while, I try to send a welcome note to new mappers
>  as I
>  stumble into their edits.  I think this is a good
>  strategy to inform
>  the mappers that:
>  1. their contributions (however small) were appreciated;
>  2. they can ask questions if they want to.
>
>  In some cases, recipients respond and appreciate the
>  message.  Most of
>  the times, I don't get a response.
>
>  I don't know if there are those in the list who do this as
>  well.
>  Might be good to coordinate efforts in order not overwhelm
>  new users
>  with unsolicited messages.
>
>  Swiss OSM do this too [0].  If you want to know the new
>  editors in the
>  PH you can check this page [1].  I think some of last
>  week's new
>  contributors were from Project NOAH's workshop in Iloilo.
>
>  [0]  http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/SimonPoole/diary/24124
>  [1] http://resultmaps.neis-one.org/newestosmcountry.php?c=Philippines
>  --
>  cheers,
>  maning
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