Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-18 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: Both of these are unwanted; (a) is not possible without actually moving your own location around in small increments - a certain Russ N. reputedly has a script that does that and got bollocked for it. Nope, didn't. Nobody ever complained. Must've been

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-18 Thread John Smith
On 18 May 2010 17:07, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Not sure if that hits it either. You're right about spammers but if you map in Long Beach (and are uninterested in mapping LA) and someone sets up a SoCal OSM convention in LA, you wouldn't get that invitation... so whoever hosts

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-17 Thread Russ Nelson
Frederik Ramm writes: Both of these are unwanted; (a) is not possible without actually moving your own location around in small increments - a certain Russ N. reputedly has a script that does that and got bollocked for it. Nope, didn't. Nobody ever complained. I think it would be nice

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-17 Thread Russ Nelson
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Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-13 Thread Pieren
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think it would be nice to have a feature where users can actually enable a check box in their profile I wish to be contacted by other mappers in my area about mapping events or other things of relevance, and then an

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-13 Thread Serge Wroclawski
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: are there any issues with mass contacting either (a) everyone who has set their location as in NZ, or (b) everyone who has made an edit within NZ? is there an AUP for osm which forbids this? and if not, is it

[OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread Robin Paulson
i'm interested in the following from a technical and social perspective: as part of the LINZ import, some members of osm in NZ are about to add a lot of data to NZ. we've already had a number of mappers contact us concerned we are about to write over their data (which incidentally, won't happen)

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
yes, i want this function as well! On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.comwrote: i'm interested in the following from a technical and social perspective: as part of the LINZ import, some members of osm in NZ are about to add a lot of data to NZ. we've already

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread Frederik Ramm
Robin, Robin Paulson wrote: we would like to make as many NZ mappers aware of the import as possible, firstly to reduce these concerns, and to stop the potential outfux of NZ mappers who see themselves being replaced by bots and scripts. also, it would of course be beneficial to include more

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, For that, I (we the talk-ca list) did 1: Posted a notice on all of the Wiki Pages of people who indicated they were mapping in Canada. (45 or so at the time) -tried to make the Canada wiki page as clear as i could (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Srw) is an example) * listing

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread John Smith
On 13 May 2010 07:13, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: set their location as in NZ, or (b) everyone who has made an edit within NZ? is there an AUP for osm which forbids this? b is possible, although you'd need to be able to do some internet connected scripting, you pull down a

Re: [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread Robin Paulson
On 13 May 2010 09:38, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: we would like to make as many NZ mappers aware of the import as possible, firstly to reduce these concerns, and to stop the potential outfux of NZ mappers who see themselves being replaced by bots and scripts. also, it would of

Re: [Talk-ca] [OSM-talk] mass mailing osm mappers

2010-05-12 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi, For that, I (we the talk-ca list) did 1: Posted a notice on all of the Wiki Pages of people who indicated they were mapping in Canada. (45 or so at the time) -tried to make the Canada wiki page as clear as i could (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Srw) is an example) * listing