[OSM-talk] Some thoughts against remote mapping

[Andrew Wiseman]

That's a great idea! It could help build community but also make it easier
to check edits to make sure they are ok. Maybe this could be built into one
of the QA/QC tools?

Andrew

On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 8:29 PM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> Andrew Wiseman writes:
>  > We talked about this a bit at the HOT Birds of a Feather at State of the
>  > Map -- to me it's a great idea. Why not ask some basic (and purely
>  > optional) information when people join OSM, with some fields for that
> info,
>
> IMHO, we should allow people to use OSM tools to create polygons of
> interest. Then, people can choose to get various notifications based
> on events relative to those polygons. For example, you could send a
> message to a node or a way, and everyone whose polygons intersected it
> would get a notification. Or people could get a notification of edits
> within those polygons. Or of people who created a polygon intersecting
> their polygon.
>
> Basically, give people more tools to communicate with people who are
> local to them, or local to their interests.
>
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