[Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

[Bryan Housel]

Relax, I am not saying “contributors must have a Facebook account”, rather I am saying “People with a Facebook account should be able to join a local interest mapping group”.

This is about increasing the number of casual mappers interested in OSM. For example, Maptime is an organization that runs local meetups for this purpose.  They currently seem to prefer Meeetup/Twitter, but I think a stronger presence on Facebook would do more to further their aims.


> On Oct 15, 2015, at 9:33 AM, Greg Troxel <gdt at ir.bbn.com> wrote:
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> Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> writes:
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>> Agree with everything you said about *why* groups are important,
>> except that: now that it's 2015, Facebook groups is really a better
>> place for this.
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> Except that osm is part of the Free Sofware / Open Data world, and it
> isn't reasonable to expect contributors to have a relationship with an
> advertising company.
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