On 9 January 2011 22:35, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > This was not purely a techical issue. If we were set up, technically, to > handle something like what you're describing here, the "eternal september" > effect would kill off the community for good.
That depends very much on how you tell the users from this major new source to edit and on the sort of edits you solicit from them. To be sure, if you overnight increase the rate of newbie arrival by an order of magnitude, and if you then do as we have always done, saying "newbies, allow me to introduce Potlatch and JOSM. Oh, and Map Features is that way, now be sure to connect all your nodes", then things will get a little chaotic. But it doesn't have to be like that. Again, we don't know what kinds of users these are and Steve's not telling, but Let us suppose they are not hardcore map geeks, because such people are quite likely to have found us already. A less ambitious mapper can get by with higher-level tools. Indeed, a mapper who manipulates, say, only POIs, you could even get by with a not-quite-live submission tool. Heresy, of course, but hey, you could do it... Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Igaühel on siin oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi üles _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
