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

[Joseph Reeves]

Ok, I'll bite...

>I think this would be missing our audience.  If you're illiterate (a group
Twitter caters specifically to), what are the >odds you're going to be able
to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM?

How do illiterate people use Twitter?
Do illiterate people have no spatial knowledge that could be of use to the
wider world? Is there no way that Open spatial data could help illiterate
people?
Is "our audience" people that look at osm.org and don't like social media?

In my opinion OSM is going to really take off once we start making more use
of social media, or other means of participation, such as SMS messaging
(the sorts of things you couldn't do with closed spatial data, such as
GMaps), and start thinking less of pixels on osm.org

Joseph


On 9 January 2013 15:15, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Jan 9, 2013 at 8:57 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> I think it is ok for us to post stuff to Twitter, and I think we should
>> make room for such news on our web page (many web sites have a widget that
>> shows the most recent twitter mentions).
>>
>> I would dislike a "follow us on Twitter" button because it will only show
>> the Twitter signup page if someone doesn't have an account, and therefore
>> make it look like you had to subscribe to Twitter in order to read our news
>> - which is thankfully not true.
>>
>
> I think this would be missing our audience.  If you're illiterate (a group
> Twitter caters specifically to), what are the odds you're going to be able
> to make use of a map, much less contribute constructively to OSM?
>
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