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

[John F. Eldredge]

Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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I think that was a somewhat-snarky way of commenting on how many Twitter users don't spell very well and/or have poor grammar.  This isn't limited to Twitter users, unfortunately.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
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