[OSM-talk] Stack Overflow-like site for geographic information systems

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

Matt Williams wrote:
> On 22 June 2010 17:44, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>> On 22/06/10 17:35, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
>>
>>> You may have used questions and answers sites such as Stack Overflow
>>> (http://stackoverflow.com/) or its siblings - I like them a lot. There
>>> is a proposal for such a site dedicated to geographic information
>>> systems - and it would be a very nice place for Openstreetmap support.
>>> If you believe that this is a good idea, you may take a look at the
>>> proposal and maybe vote for it at http://j.mp/cqyYn0
>> I think it would be rather bad of us to try and take it over and use it
>> for our own ends like that.
>>
>> Some of us have already been talking about setting up an OSM specific
>> Q&A site like this which would be a much better fit than trying to use
>> something that is intended to be more general.

Good point. I think you are right. I had not thought about that.

> Especially with things like Shapado http://shapado.comand
> http://gitorious.org/shapado) allowing you to set up our own site or
> be hosted on the main Shapado site (http://shapado.com/groups/new) I
> think that having a service which is more under our control is a good
> idea.

End-to-end community control is good, I agree.

So much for Stack Overflow then. But I'm glad that the idea of an OSM 
Q&A site is being discussed - I believe that there is a strong 
unexpressed demand for that.