Hello, I guess it all depends on whether the users have accepted to make public their location. I am not sure whether the site allows to decide whether to make public or not your location. Personally, while I understand your enthusiasm, I would find annoying to receive a pre-formatted message asking me to do more for Open Street Map. I am more than happy to help people in the same area as me, and I actually did contact someone editing my hometown for that very purpose. But I would get twitchy if it was done a mass scale. This is a hobby project for me and I would consider your practice to be a bit like bullying. But that's just me. However, it varies from people to people and if they choose to make their location public I see no reason not to send them an email. I just wouldn't like it. The key thing is that you have to be careful about privacy in this case.
Emilie Laffray Russ Nelson wrote: > The OSM webserver will tell you the ten people with home locations > closest to your home location. It would be useful to be able to get > more than that, for the purpose of inviting people to attend mapping > parties so they can become more effective and enthusiastic OSM > contributors. If you move your home location to the location of the > mapping party, you can get ten people, and if you move it around some > more, you can get more than just those ten. > > So, being intolerant of boring, repetitive activities, I've written a > program to find OSM users by their home location. You give it a > lat,lon, and the radius in degrees of the circle in which you want to > find people, and it repeatedly changes your home location until it's > gotten everyone. > > Is this program a good thing or a bad thing? If it's a good thing, > then great, I'll use it. If it's a bad thing, then how do we stop > other people less cooperative than myself from writing the same program? > > -- > Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson > [email protected] - Twitter: Russ_OSM - > http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson > > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev >
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