[Talk-us] Why we really don't get new users

[Russell Deffner]

Oh, thanks for mentioning - I'm looking for someone to take over this
proposal:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/shop%3Dmarijuana 

 

Don't need to let me know, if you know how, but ask if not:
russdeffner at gmail.com

 

From: Paul Johnson [mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 1:04 PM
To: OpenStreetMap talk-us list
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] Why we really don't get new users

 


On Mar 17, 2014 9:02 PM, "Shawn K. Quinn" <skquinn at rushpost.com> wrote:

> a. The pot shops need to be standardized, one way or another. I can see
> different tagging for recreational versus medical but either way, I'd
> like to see us standardize on something for each and be done with it.

I definitely agree.  My general bounding box of focus these days is bound to
the north by Gunnison, Colorado; west by Lake City, Colorado; and southeast
by Little Rock.  This puts already legal Colorado, soon to be legal
Missouri, and soon to be no longer enforcing prohibition Tulsa County,
Oklahoma in my home range.  And even where it's not legal, how do you handle
shops that specializes in selling supplies, ostensibly calling them "tobacco
supplies", but everyone knows it's a head shop?

> > 4. The wiki is a terrible platform for documenting the ontology because
> > it's not machine readable and it's just a slow way to get information.
>
> What do you propose we replace it with?

I think the complaint is valid, but standardizing the layout a bit more
(think like man pages or the DOS 3.33 manuals) may help in making something
that's still human friendly while making machine parsing easier. 

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