[talk-ph] talk-ph Digest, Vol 75, Issue 20

Tue Oct 28 06:12:17 UTC 2014

When I relocated to the Philippines from the United States I was culture-shocked at the lack of the type of mapping I was accustomed to. I brought 2 Garmin GPS for driving directions that are not much good here except for paper-weights. I stumbled upon OSM and loaded the maps for my Garmin. Still not much good for driving in NCR and surrounds. I did a complete walking survey of the Ayala subdivision and entered it into OSM. I found it very difficult and did not get the response to my inquiries that I hoped for. Now I plan to relocate to Bicol. I hope I can help there.

Miles Sumner

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Today's Topics:

   1. Welcoming new PH mappers (maning sambale)
   2. Re: Welcoming new PH mappers (Totor)

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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2014 22:05:37 +0800
From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
To: osm-ph <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: [talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers
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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
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cheers,
maning
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"Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden
wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/
blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2014 12:42:44 +0800
From: Totor <totor_osm at yahoo.com>
To: osm-ph <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [talk-ph] Welcoming new PH mappers
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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
 ------------------------------------------------------
 "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden
 wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/
 blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/
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