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

Steve Bennett stevagewp at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 01:12:45 BST 2010


Looks like that one has died, but there are OSM questions in the
(active beta) GIS one:

http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/openstreetmap

Steve
(I'm reviving this old thread rather than start a new one to post the url...)

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Stephen Hope <slhope at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23 June 2010 02:44, Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Somebody is already trying.
> http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/7486/openstreetmap
>
> I note that one question asked about that proposal is if it shouldn't
> be merged with the general GIS one.
>
> No matter what we end up doing, it probably wouldn't hurt for some of
> us to keep an eye on the GIS area if it get going, just so we can
> answer any questions related to OSM that come up.  I do think we
> shouldn't take it over, but that doesn't mean we can't participate.
>
>
> Stephen
>
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