[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
>
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> 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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maning
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