Just sifting through the thread again … I like this idea for connecting people as they're editing… I guess it's worthwhile pointing out that when we wrote into the Knight proposal 'better social tools' we were thinking less 'post my latest change to twitter' - extreme example, noone suggested we would - but more like 'how can we connect mappers better?'.
For instance: I'd like to know better who's mapping in any areas I have mapped. In Portland someone had the idea of notifying me if someone modified data in an area I've just recently worked on. For instance: currently we're showing mappers' home locations on our user profiles - I don't find that as useful as showing mappers who've recently mapped in an area I'm interested in - doesn't need to be my home town. On Oct 12, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > On 12.10.2012 23:13, Paweł Paprota wrote: >>> * Social OSM: feh, don't care. >> >> I accept that there are different views on that topic. Ultimately I >> think the project can greatly benefit from having more mappers (through >> better osm.org usability and social-ability). > > 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. > > 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? > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev Alex Barth http://twitter.com/lxbarth tel (+1) 202 250 3633 _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
