[OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers
John Smith
deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Thu May 13 01:43:01 BST 2010
On 13 May 2010 07:13, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> set their location as in NZ, or (b) everyone who has made an edit
> within NZ? is there an AUP for osm which forbids this?
b is possible, although you'd need to be able to do some internet
connected scripting, you pull down a local copy either from XAPI or
use osmosis on the australia-oceania extra to pull out the NZ edits,
you then extract the userids and/or usernames from the extract,
exclude the bots and then the fun begins, you submit your message as a
http post or get, in a similar fashion to how the web site works...
However I like Frederik's suggestion of extending the website to ask
people if they want to be mailed about important things like this,
this would be even better if the change happens before or about the
same time as the request to prompt users to set their license
preferences.
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