Hi Folks, Personally I think its best if they do become editors as well as mailing/forum/discord participants. It's the best way to learn the ecosystem and I have no doubt that their data group will have some GIS knowledge etc so it wont be too onerous on them to participate.
The difficulty is that it may take them 'ages' to get some higher level approval to be 'official' editors for the organisation. Not that this will mean anything to OSM mappers but government organisations like to keep control of what their employees do at a public level. I would also be happy to email/chat to them at any time. Cheers - Phil -----Original Message----- From: stevea <stevea...@softworkers.com> Sent: Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:05 PM To: Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com>; Kim Oldfield via Talk-au <talk-au@openstreetmap.org> Subject: Re: [talk-au] OSM - NSW NPWS liaison My two cents. Our forum and Discord require "accounts" to be registered at the OSM level (via OAuth2 by registering for a volunteer Contributor account to OSM) and at "the Discord level," something else again. A mailing list "merely" requires an email address as an "account" to be registered with the talk-au mailing list, which could be argued (I begin, but offer nothing more than this assertion) that this is an "easier" (for "easiest" I add a ?) or at least "lower bar" and maybe "preferentially more anonymous" or "less privacy invasive" method, for those reasons. Registering on talk-au doesn't require agreeing to what we agree to to become Contributors, "merely" to join a "talking community" about "things Australia regarding OSM." By providing an email address and registering with a mailman account, that's both "low-bar" and "fairly sharply focused" at the same time. A great benefit are many relevant eyeballs who read the "contact us questions" which seem to have arisen. While I'm not, I could imaging myself as an IT person at a National P&WS and reading the analysis above, nodding my head, agreeing that it isn't a very high bar to jump over to have a chat. And then, having a chat. > On Nov 1, 2023, at 8:52 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > DWG have received a > "Request for a Liaison Officer: > To enhance the accuracy of OpenStreetMap data pertaining to the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service" > > This has come up in regard to tracks that they say they have previously requested be deleted (I'm contacting them to confirm just which?) > > What would be the easiest way for them to contact us with questions like this - here / Forum / Discord? > > Question posed in all three places > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
