[Talk-us] Onboarding new mappers | Keeping track of changes

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Wed Jun 26 17:49:57 UTC 2013


On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Bryce Nesbitt <bryce2 at obviously.com>wrote:

> Moved from another thread:
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 2:51 AM, stevea <steveaOSM at softworkers.com> wrote:
>
>> OSM has a peer review process in place right now.  It is called "watch
>> the map, help it evolve, grow it as you can, if somebody does something
>> odd/wrong/different, dialog with them."  And then, take it from there.
>>  We're all grown ups here.
>>
>
> There may be a few children mixed in. But mostly, coming to OSM, signing
> up, and mapping can be a *very lonely experience.*
> In most cases *nobody* greets you or *talks* to you unless you make a *
> mistake*.
>

I think the work happening on Groups in the OSM.org website [0] would
really help this. Once groups are available and started:

   - There are existing tools that highlight new mappers and the more
experienced users could invite the new mappers to join groups that relate
to their location or interests
   - We could automatically look at the first edit(s) a user makes and
suggest (via an e-mail) that they join groups that relate to their changes

Groups would make the community a lot smaller and inviting for brand new
people but allow more experienced users to communicate with each other more
efficiently, too.

[0] https://github.com/osmlab/openstreetmap-website/commits/groups-sketch
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