[Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

[Mike Dupont]

Many people don't use mailing lists.

What about an recent edits around me feature?  What if we could
comment or vote (like) directly on a changeset/node/line? What if the
discussion could be directly a part of the editing process. Community
could form more naturally. So you could subscribe to a discussion on a
node or area and get updates. Also it would be great to be able to
filter out bots or huge world wide edits.

Other people might want to talk about railroads. Others want to review
talk about recent unreviewed edits. All of these things could be
queried and displayed.

On Wed, Oct 14, 2015 at 9:12 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
> On 10/14/2015 5:30 PM, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>
>> - 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.
>
>
> We've got Puget Sound (northwest Washington State) and New York State lists.
> I wouldn't say either has been that much of a success. talk-us-pugetsound
> has had 4 messages in the last year, all announcements, and the region has a
> reasonably active OSM community for the US. talk-us-newyork has similar
> numbers, though I'm not sure how active the OSM community is there, as
> opposed to the geo- community.
>
> The problem is that if you make a discussion group too small, it doesn't
> have enough activity to sustain interest in it.
>
> Larger regions might work, but even a statewide group abandons the might
> meet for a geobeer idea where it takes 6 hours to drive across the state.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't have any great ideas.
>
>
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