[Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

[Greg Troxel]

To me, one of the biggest things is about having all mappers act
reasonably toward each other.  We have some people that I'd describe as
"lone wolf mappers".  If they just add things, that's fine.  But if they
are retagging motorways as trunk, or deleting railroads, or otherwise
being hostile, it's a huge turnoff for others to be part of the
community.  In contrast, there are a lot of people that talk with the
other local mappers and it's far more friendly.

So I have two concrete suggestions:

- in each state, have a state mailinglist, limited to people who
  actively map in the state, because they live there, or because they
  drive there to work.  Explicitly discourage non-locals from joining.
  These lists would have more of a "people you might meet for a geobeer
  session someday" flavor, rather than people you've never met and
  won't.

- have project leadership be much more aggressive about requiring people
  that make edits other than local additions to engage with commenter
  and be part of the community, or be banned.  a few prolific editors
  that annoy many others are a net minus to the community, and I think
  that's pretty clear by now.
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