[OSM-talk] Simple improvement(s) to openstreetmap.org

[Greg Troxel]

Jonathan Bennett <jonobennett at gmail.com> writes:

> On 08/01/2013 21:31, Rovastar wrote:
>> My idea is simple can someone add modern social media networks logos/links
>> to the home page.
>
> As a member of the OSMF Communications Working Group (CWG), I have
> perhaps the greatest level of involvement in the various OSM-branded
> pages/accounts on various social networks.
>
> This idea has been discussed in CWG, and at some point* a mock-up will
> appear. It's not straightforward because we can't use the standard
> network-supplied widgets -- they leak information back to those
> networks, so are an unacceptable risk to mappers' privacy.

I'm glad to hear people are paying atttention to this; it's helpful to
the people that aren't using RequestPolicy :-)

Personally, I find it puzzling that open data (and open source) projects
are willing to (as projects) use services with bad data policies and bad
privacy policies.  While I wouldn't advocate that OSMF take a position
in the culture battle against such services, using them takes the
opposite position (that they are ok).

Perhaps a Diaspora pod?  (I realize that currently, that probably
reaches few people.)

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