On Fri, Oct 12, 2012, at 23:28, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > On 12.10.2012 23:13, Paweł Paprota wrote: > >> * Social OSM: feh, don't care. > > My take on social OSM is a combination of these views - "feh" because I > myself am really not interested in "your friend Peter mapped a post box > yesterday!"; but I can see that there *are* people who would like that > kind of thing and if we can offer it to them - all the better. >
I'm not a very "social" person myself but when I started thinking about "social" in the context of OSM it hit me that it's a great fit. The thing is that on Facebook vast majority of updates that come in does not interest me at all, hence I use Facebook maybe once a week to check updates on some book authors I like or hang glider manufacturer discussion group or whatever. Now, in OSM that is completely different (for me) - I would really like to see what's going on in my area, what are people working on. I would like to be able to quickly send a broadcast and say "let's go and map X and Y". So I think "social OSM" maybe is not the best name for this because it reminds people of Facebook's garbage "I just ate a sandwich" status updates. In any case, we will see how it works out, for sure I think it's worth a try. > There are also a number of interesting things that I would perhaps not > use, but like to toy with as a coder - for example I've long been > thinking, wouldn't it be cool if an editor were showing a little chat > box to the side where you would be connected live to the people editing > in the same city right now? > Very cool idea, not sure how many people would use it (hard to predict such things) but it aligns nicely with the idea of making communication between mappers easier. Paweł _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
