[OSM-talk] Your experience in reaching out to Maps.me users ?

[Andy Townsend]

On 12/11/2020 09:55, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:
> Is it just me or are Maps.me Openstreetmap contributors unaware of 
> Openstreetmap messages ? Does anyone here have seen Maps.me 
> Openstreetmap contributors answer to Openstreetmap messages ?
>
They'll get an email just like every other email user.  What might 
happen with MAPS.ME is that someone might sign up with a throwaway email 
address, and they also might not expect a "mapping application" to talk 
back to them.

I've certainly had responses from MAPS.ME users, but there have also 
been cases where no communication has occurred.

If people really aren't seeing messages then send an email to the DWG 
asking them to send a message that the user can't ignore.

However, looking back through the history of edits in Bamako, the last 
"all caps MAPS.ME node adder" has received no comments on changesets 
(this might be a different one to the one that you are talking about, of 
course).  I'd suggest a comment, in a language that they are likely to 
understand, that says something like:

    Hello and welcome to OpenStreetMap!

    Thanks for adding these government offices to OpenStreetMap so that
    everyone can see where they are.  Just to let you know - there's no
    need to put the name in all capital letters - names would usually
    added as you would write them normally, so for example "Total"
    rather than "TOTAL".  If you've got any other questions, please
    don't hesitate to ask.

    Best Regards,

    (your name)


Best Regards,

Andy

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