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

[Joseph Reeves]

>It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an
intelligent thought in 140 characters or less.

You got that one expressed in 115 characters #JustSayin'


On 15 January 2013 14:36, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday, January 9, 2013, Joseph Reeves 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?
>>
>
> It's nearly impossible, in the English-speaking world, to express an
> intelligent thought in 140 characters or less.  It's writing system just
> doesn't work that way.  And you lose characters to tags or links.  It's
> like Google+ without the intelligence, or Facebook without any
> functionality.
>
>
>>
> 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
>>
>
> So pick social media that doesn't cater exclusively to a crowd whose
> education stopped midway through Grade 2.
>
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