[Talk-us] Increasing the number of US Mappers

[Greg Troxel]

Bryan Housel <bryan at 7thposition.com> writes:

> 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.

Sure, but what tends to happen is that the local osm group the organizes
on $OBJECTIONABLE_PLATFORM and those that don't use it are marginalized.
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