[Talk-us] Forums/email lists for OSM Discussions

[Ian Dees]

It's impossible to be informed on every issue in OpenStreetMap. There's
lots going on!

It's not realistic to restrict people's communication about OpenStreetMap,
but we can encourage people to participate in places where existing
communication happens. For example, the iD editor uses the
osm-community-index (https://github.com/osmlab/osm-community-index) to
present a list of communications channels when you save a changeset. That
suggests places for mappers to look if they're interested in participating
more or finding others that are interested in OpenStreetMap.

There's a web interface to this project at https://openstreetmap.community/,
and you can click around there to learn more about where to go if you have
questions about OpenStreetMap.

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 6:30 PM Dave Swarthout <daveswarthout at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am anti-Slack too. The proliferation of forums all over the place makes
> it really tricky to be realistically informed on every issue. I wish there
> was a way to restrict discussions to the fora managed only by OSM, not
> Slack, or Reddit, or whatever else people might dream up. Email lists,
> threaded or not, might be problematical in the sense that there is no one
> place where one can search for a topic of interest unless you as an
> individual keep all the emails generated in a particular form. Maybe
> there's a way to make this happen behind the scenes, I don't know.
>
> I'm not very active in this forum but I wanted to offer my opinion on the
> issue. New mappers have a helluva time figuring out where is the best place
> to look for help. I've been mapping for almost 10 years and I am still
> befuddled sometimes about: Where to look or ask? What's the best place for
> this topic?
>
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